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Arvada, Colorado · one day

Saturday 15 August 2026

11 drone flights from Arvada Police Department's published record.

11

drone flights over Arvada that day.

2:39 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 9:43 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Arvada police drones flew 11 times on Saturday 15 August 2026, the first at 2:39 pm and the last at 9:43 pm MDT, by Arvada Police Department's published record.

11 drawable flights of 11. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, MDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Other36%
  2. Traffic and crashes27%
  3. Call for service18%
  4. Not stated18%

Flights, in order

11 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.

Takeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
2:39 pmOther6 min2f06f7be
3:05 pmTraffic and crashes12 min9c3945c3
4:33 pmTraffic and crashes11 min4b3dc92d
5:27 pmCall for service15 min51035c06
6:20 pmNot stated1 min 25 saeb95191
6:32 pmTraffic and crashes8 minbb73682f
7:26 pmNot stated1 min 33 sdabdbfa9
7:42 pmCall for service9 mina3b3ccbe
8:04 pmOther14 min205f8754
8:59 pmOther15 minf1569872
9:43 pmOther14 min170d72f0

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. A flight whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter is listed like any other but drawn as a generalised area, not a path.
  • Operators are the agency's own accounts in the record, numbered within the agency in order of first flight; no name or address is read into a page.
  • Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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