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Arvada, Colorado · one day

Wednesday 2 September 2026

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

15

drone flights over Arvada that day.

9:19 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:25 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Arvada police drones flew 15 times on Wednesday 2 September 2026, the first at 9:19 am and the last at 9:25 pm MDT, by Arvada Police Department's published record.

15 drawable flights of 15. 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 service40%
  2. Other20%
  3. Assisting another agency13%
  4. Training and testing13%
  5. Not stated7%
  6. Traffic and crashes7%

Flights, in order

15 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
9:19 amAssisting another agency9 min58e435fd
10:53 amCall for service17 min47687ef7
1:40 pmNot stated13 minaa44c4e9
2:30 pmCall for service12 min791c52e6
3:35 pmOther5 min167f26bc
3:58 pmCall for service11 min5998fe18
4:30 pmCall for service12 mind3754c89
4:43 pmCall for service13 mina7594836
5:02 pmCall for service9 min1cceba3c
5:45 pmOther13 min827eee3d
6:04 pmTraffic and crashes7 min5ca5f7c3
7:23 pmTraining and testing7 mina3f3063e
7:36 pmTraining and testing1 min 17 s6cefbc29
9:06 pmAssisting another agency15 min3a574694
9:25 pmOther17 mine9f64898

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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