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Arvada, Colorado · one day

Tuesday 29 September 2026

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

25

drone flights over Arvada that day.

9:59 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:06 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Arvada police drones flew 25 times on Tuesday 29 September 2026, the first at 9:59 am and the last at 9:06 pm MDT, by Arvada Police Department's published record.

25 drawable flights of 25. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service28%
  2. Other28%
  3. Training and testing24%
  4. Search12%
  5. Patrol support4%
  6. Traffic and crashes4%

Flights, in order

25 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
9:59 amCall for service16 minfc1b780e
10:36 amTraining and testing4 min23efc2f5
11:04 amTraining and testing1 min 21 s041d03bb
11:13 amCall for service16 min9a440192
12:03 pmPatrol support8 min915ad24b
12:11 pmSearch16 min6eff1703
12:30 pmTraining and testing1 min 34 s0dbaed78
12:33 pmTraining and testing2 min6870de96
12:41 pmTraining and testing1 min 30 s59d5e6a9
1:16 pmOther11 mine2ddcb02
1:54 pmCall for service8 minedb483b3
2:15 pmOther13 mina0a03b01
2:36 pmOther7 min15bc4de3
3:31 pmTraining and testing4 min439230d4
3:36 pmCall for service13 min4df1b33b
3:49 pmSearch18 mina074ea83
4:22 pmSearch7 min68c70bf7
4:51 pmOther10 min909295e1
5:27 pmOther14 mine4e4d2dc
5:42 pmCall for service12 minf96f0bf8
6:40 pmOther14 minb92ce6ec
7:04 pmCall for service10 minc182da56
7:18 pmTraffic and crashes12 min687f2de4
8:03 pmCall for service9 min07824ac9
9:06 pmOther18 min4236fe6e

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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