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  4. September 2026
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Arvada, Colorado · one day

Monday 7 September 2026

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

17

drone flights over Arvada that day.

9:17 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:45 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Arvada police drones flew 17 times on Monday 7 September 2026, the first at 9:17 am and the last at 10:45 pm MDT, by Arvada Police Department's published record.

17 drawable flights of 17. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service41%
  2. Other24%
  3. Traffic and crashes12%
  4. Training and testing12%
  5. Patrol support6%
  6. Assisting another agency6%

Flights, in order

17 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
9:17 amOther15 min08ebdc16
3:07 pmOther14 min0b979666
3:46 pmCall for service14 min6f0fc419
4:29 pmTraffic and crashes10 min3278979a
4:51 pmCall for service1 min 20 sa9890ac2
5:16 pmTraining and testing5 minc5920ad4
5:31 pmTraining and testing2 min443566db
5:33 pmCall for service13 min84fbbb4a
5:51 pmCall for service17 min6bcd0238
6:11 pmOther5 mincae04d3d
6:16 pmCall for service12 min543efca1
7:38 pmCall for service13 minfce747cc
8:53 pmCall for service16 minc2f13b6e
9:12 pmPatrol support17 minb835dd65
9:35 pmTraffic and crashes6 minf42bdf98
10:25 pmAssisting another agency10 minb3f2fb81
10:45 pmOther14 mind0c6b763

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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