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  4. September 2026
  5. 6

Arvada, Colorado · one day

Sunday 6 September 2026

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

14

drone flights over Arvada that day.

1:26 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 10:36 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Arvada police drones flew 14 times on Sunday 6 September 2026, the first at 1:26 pm and the last at 10:36 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. Other36%
  2. Call for service29%
  3. Training and testing21%
  4. Patrol support7%
  5. Traffic and crashes7%

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
1:26 pmCall for service15 minfb31fa24
1:42 pmCall for service10 mineef87d26
3:09 pmCall for service13 min567f5936
4:29 pmOther10 min2e88dd12
5:18 pmOther12 min7fd1a7fe
5:38 pmOther7 min9174d843
6:29 pmTraining and testing4 min859fcf5d
6:46 pmTraining and testing10 min9b0a9ed4
7:51 pmTraining and testing42 sd65d83f0
7:53 pmPatrol support8 min66e8ebfa
8:02 pmOther14 min7dada780
9:08 pmOther10 min0c37ec3a
9:34 pmCall for service17 min047eaef3
10:36 pmTraffic and crashes10 min331b98bc

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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