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  4. September 2026
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Arvada, Colorado · one day

Wednesday 9 September 2026

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

26

drone flights over Arvada that day.

9:25 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:32 pm.

6 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Arvada police drones flew 26 times on Wednesday 9 September 2026, the first at 9:25 am and the last at 10:32 pm MDT, by Arvada Police Department's published record.

26 drawable flights of 26. 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 testing50%
  2. Call for service31%
  3. Patrol support12%
  4. Other8%

Flights, in order

26 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
9:25 amCall for service11 minaefcd61d
1:35 pmTraining and testing5 minfd0c20bc
2:09 pmOther10 min4b09748d
2:23 pmCall for service10 minc3e0083a
2:38 pmPatrol support10 minfc8d5110
3:24 pmTraining and testing5 min46b332e1
3:43 pmTraining and testing8 min66b294d4
4:36 pmCall for service13 min0d2ae94f
5:23 pmCall for service7 minff6aeed9
5:27 pmCall for service6 min8245dcfd
5:57 pmCall for service15 mina84caf45
6:11 pmOther17 mind2cfc356
6:55 pmPatrol support17 min85bfe156
7:23 pmPatrol support13 minb58eb400
8:03 pmTraining and testing3 minc00ee9d3
8:11 pmTraining and testing1 min 02 sc01b3033
8:17 pmTraining and testing3 mina0af2564
8:21 pmTraining and testing3 minee57f271
8:27 pmTraining and testing5 minbcdc1209
8:34 pmTraining and testing3 mine71512c1
8:38 pmTraining and testing2 min869a868f
8:44 pmTraining and testing1 min 41 s2dd4e92e
8:48 pmTraining and testing3 min2d69e711
8:53 pmCall for service18 min693d46a5
9:28 pmTraining and testing1 min 12 sc053cd41
10:32 pmCall for service6 min7e0fc72d

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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