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Arvada, Colorado · one day

Tuesday 25 August 2026

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

21

drone flights over Arvada that day.

1:22 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 10:13 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Arvada police drones flew 21 times on Tuesday 25 August 2026, the first at 1:22 pm and the last at 10:13 pm MDT, by Arvada Police Department's published record.

21 drawable flights of 21. 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. Call for service33%
  2. Training and testing24%
  3. Assisting another agency10%
  4. Traffic and crashes10%
  5. Other10%
  6. Patrol support5%
  7. Not stated5%
  8. Events5%

Flights, in order

21 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
1:22 pmTraining and testing4 min51741663
2:33 pmTraining and testing1 min 17 s2756f310
2:43 pmAssisting another agency21 min458ef622
3:21 pmPatrol support2 mincbef77d7
3:27 pmNot stated4 min5bb55767
3:34 pmTraffic and crashes4 min83888aa0
3:48 pmCall for service19 min9dca6626
4:26 pmOther16 min2b3cddd9
4:43 pmCall for service5 min7a045e1b
4:57 pmTraining and testing1 min 00 sa556f68b
4:59 pmCall for service10 minc6f45352
5:10 pmCall for service8 minbe82dae5
5:44 pmAssisting another agency17 minb821d1a2
6:26 pmTraffic and crashes9 min1099355d
6:37 pmTraining and testing49 s56b649c0
6:38 pmCall for service11 min881d6799
6:56 pmCall for service12 min46275846
7:15 pmCall for service22 min225e2d66
8:11 pmOther18 min8f74fca0
9:09 pmEvents11 min3d26a15d
10:13 pmTraining and testing3 minf3019c2e

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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