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Arvada, Colorado · one day

Friday 4 September 2026

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

14

drone flights over Arvada that day.

1:52 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 10:26 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Arvada police drones flew 14 times on Friday 4 September 2026, the first at 1:52 pm and the last at 10:26 pm MDT, by Arvada Police Department's published record.

14 drawable flights of 14. 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. Other43%
  2. Call for service36%
  3. Assisting another agency14%
  4. Training and testing7%

Flights, in order

14 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
1:52 pmCall for service9 min07c6cd37
2:24 pmOther8 min3fcf14c0
2:36 pmOther12 mine4acd0a3
3:17 pmCall for service15 min67866089
3:47 pmOther11 min0972c3dd
5:09 pmOther15 minf715788c
6:03 pmCall for service16 min980899ac
6:36 pmAssisting another agency13 min3ad49ffe
7:27 pmOther3 min117191fa
7:35 pmOther18 min5c8eb06c
8:21 pmTraining and testing7 min7da88c38
9:32 pmCall for service12 min1f38b094
9:50 pmAssisting another agency11 min7acbe600
10:26 pmCall for service10 min166e9e4f

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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