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Arvada, Colorado · one day

Wednesday 16 September 2026

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

10

drone flights over Arvada that day.

2:15 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 9:18 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Arvada police drones flew 10 times on Wednesday 16 September 2026, the first at 2:15 pm and the last at 9:18 pm MDT, by Arvada Police Department's published record.

10 drawable flights of 10. 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. Call for service50%
  2. Other40%
  3. Training and testing10%

Flights, in order

10 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
2:15 pmOther14 mind65c1752
2:30 pmCall for service17 minc08839ca
2:52 pmTraining and testing1 min 23 s05d37d65
3:08 pmCall for service10 minfd05e09f
5:13 pmCall for service17 min8e99ead7
6:05 pmCall for service18 mine96e7677
7:16 pmOther10 min27484e52
7:44 pmOther6 min8ac7624a
8:00 pmCall for service15 min2fe0fc92
9:18 pmOther13 min2fa709c0

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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