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  3. Arvada
  4. September 2026
  5. 12

Arvada, Colorado · one day

Saturday 12 September 2026

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

14

drone flights over Arvada that day.

1:54 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 8:27 pm.

5 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Arvada police drones flew 14 times on Saturday 12 September 2026, the first at 1:54 pm and the last at 8:27 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. Training and testing64%
  2. Assisting another agency7%
  3. Traffic and crashes7%
  4. Patrol support7%
  5. Call for service7%
  6. Other7%

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
1:54 pmTraining and testing4 minbb79fcf8
2:00 pmTraining and testing2 min3ccef84e
2:06 pmTraining and testing9 min29464893
2:17 pmTraining and testing2 min110e5419
2:21 pmTraining and testing2 min43af3bfc
2:25 pmTraining and testing2 min09def527
2:29 pmTraining and testing2 mine0cb9297
2:33 pmAssisting another agency9 min414a407b
3:12 pmTraffic and crashes17 min65d30cb2
6:17 pmPatrol support10 min8620f04c
6:30 pmCall for service15 min2bd4c169
7:04 pmTraining and testing7 min9dee3729
7:29 pmTraining and testing2 minaede50fa
8:27 pmOther12 min2b414ba6

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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