drone flights over Arvada that day.

5:15 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:01 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Arvada police drones flew 15 times on Sunday 27 September 2026, the first at 5:15 am and the last at 10:01 pm MDT, by Arvada Police Department's published record.

15 drawable flights of 15. 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

Call for service47%
Other27%
Traffic and crashes20%
Patrol support7%

Flights, in order

15 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)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
5:15 am	Patrol support	20 min	`6e5294b7`
5:54 am	Other	12 min	`b92d6246`
7:26 am	Other	14 min	`bee6c9e7`
10:54 am	Call for service	22 min	`cb62129f`
11:23 am	Call for service	23 min	`ea0e5d1b`
11:58 am	Call for service	7 min	`eb9b8637`
2:37 pm	Traffic and crashes	9 min	`e3ce1b18`
2:50 pm	Traffic and crashes	8 min	`fe87b3c3`
3:51 pm	Call for service	14 min	`3aedddc0`
5:50 pm	Call for service	8 min	`4ea310ad`
6:11 pm	Call for service	4 min	`3a9dd363`
6:37 pm	Other	14 min	`b33e0cab`
7:27 pm	Call for service	12 min	`f77c59ca`
8:07 pm	Other	9 min	`84b0a736`
10:01 pm	Traffic and crashes	11 min	`c260f842`

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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