17
drone flights over Arvada that day.
1:23 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 10:02 pm.
11 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Arvada police drones flew 17 times on Friday 18 September 2026, the first at 1:23 pm and the last at 10:02 pm MDT, by Arvada Police Department's published record.
One flight; takeoff and landing removed
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, MDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
15 listable flights; 2 with a sensitive stated purpose are counted above but not listed. Flights in the latest full month link to their own page.
| Takeoff (MDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:23 pm | Call for service | 7 min | 15bdc23d |
| 2:05 pm | Call for service | 13 min | 685fc365 |
| 2:22 pm | Not stated | 2 min | 424a8cc1 |
| 2:27 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 04 s | e5e881a2 |
| 2:38 pm | Other | 9 min | fa3d1245 |
| 2:43 pm | Call for service | 18 min | 53730a61 |
| 3:03 pm | Call for service | 10 min | 3d334235 |
| 3:14 pm | Call for service | 6 min | ac04b410 |
| 5:10 pm | Call for service | 8 min | 17a58c27 |
| 6:02 pm | Not stated | 18 min | 9b69057d |
| 6:25 pm | Call for service | 20 min | 71c5c32a |
| 6:56 pm | Call for service | 14 min | 98025400 |
| 7:30 pm | Other | 19 min | ca5c942c |
| 7:59 pm | Training and testing | 4 min | 8e1a7466 |
| 9:19 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 0f581ff0 |
How this page is made
- Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
- Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
- The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
- 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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