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Arvada, Colorado · one day

Wednesday 26 August 2026

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

20

drone flights over Arvada that day.

11:06 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:26 pm.

3 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Arvada police drones flew 20 times on Wednesday 26 August 2026, the first at 11:06 am and the last at 8:26 pm MDT, by Arvada Police Department's published record.

20 drawable flights of 20. 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. Training and testing65%
  2. Other20%
  3. Assisting another agency5%
  4. Traffic and crashes5%
  5. Call for service5%

Flights, in order

20 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
11:06 amTraining and testing3 mina30d93e7
11:14 amOther12 minb08ce07b
11:26 amTraining and testing4 min6b96a36c
11:42 amTraining and testing3 min9bf11591
11:49 amAssisting another agency17 min02c88671
12:18 pmTraffic and crashes10 minac362f02
2:41 pmTraining and testing3 min4ab84126
2:45 pmOther8 min60c91f01
2:59 pmOther10 min719af0e0
4:31 pmOther21 min2c8e1685
5:01 pmCall for service15 mine6eb3b4c
5:27 pmTraining and testing2 min0de26bcc
7:29 pmTraining and testing1 min 13 s97588d66
7:31 pmTraining and testing1 min 00 safff514b
7:33 pmTraining and testing52 s8980ed24
7:53 pmTraining and testing1 min 05 s579d4dac
7:56 pmTraining and testing1 min 43 s647d65a3
8:02 pmTraining and testing2 min1ca693e2
8:13 pmTraining and testing3 min5d7a99aa
8:26 pmTraining and testing3 mincee7f4ef

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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