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  4. September 2026
  5. 30

Arvada, Colorado · one day

Wednesday 30 September 2026

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

17

drone flights over Arvada that day.

12:09 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 10:26 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Arvada police drones flew 17 times on Wednesday 30 September 2026, the first at 12:09 pm and the last at 10:26 pm MDT, by Arvada Police Department's published record.

17 drawable flights of 17. 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 service76%
  2. Other12%
  3. Training and testing6%
  4. Patrol support6%

Flights, in order

17 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
12:09 pmCall for service14 min47cf294d
12:32 pmCall for service10 min4e4772a8
2:52 pmCall for service12 min824b0c71
3:13 pmCall for service7 min98e0f27c
4:15 pmCall for service12 minfcf52142
4:36 pmCall for service16 mind3b7527f
6:24 pmCall for service11 min5e46656e
6:48 pmCall for service3 minb169050b
7:25 pmOther16 min01e53f25
7:52 pmCall for service17 minfec72d5e
8:05 pmCall for service14 mind94500b7
8:23 pmCall for service8 min17cdfd69
8:35 pmTraining and testing59 s203bc867
8:48 pmOther9 min84bab6a7
9:29 pmCall for service11 min97af6c1b
9:51 pmPatrol support12 min7f6a06af
10:26 pmCall for service16 minad75c015

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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