24
drone flights over Arvada that day.
10:27 am
first takeoff; the last was at 10:33 pm.
9 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Arvada police drones flew 24 times on Thursday 1 October 2026, the first at 10:27 am and the last at 10:33 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
20 listable flights; 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:27 am | Call for service | 7 min | 826aed7e |
| 1:43 pm | Other | 17 min | 4fc4e715 |
| 2:42 pm | Call for service | 16 min | e6f81676 |
| 2:59 pm | Other | 11 min | d3a79b34 |
| 4:00 pm | Traffic and crashes | 17 min | eaa9b434 |
| 4:56 pm | Other | 9 min | 4a6468b1 |
| 5:06 pm | Call for service | 5 min | 91364559 |
| 6:04 pm | Other | 18 min | 0f6a482e |
| 6:14 pm | Call for service | 12 min | 9b724387 |
| 6:38 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 12 s | 220c15a4 |
| 6:40 pm | Training and testing | 57 s | 483fdcb9 |
| 6:42 pm | Training and testing | 47 s | dc684858 |
| 6:46 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 04 s | c45fb1c3 |
| 7:11 pm | Assisting another agency | 19 min | e57a67c2 |
| 7:38 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 52 s | 2d5acd5f |
| 7:43 pm | Search | 5 min | e5b7def4 |
| 8:00 pm | Training and testing | 4 min | 7c009796 |
| 8:23 pm | Other | 6 min | 628f29c3 |
| 9:13 pm | Call for service | 17 min | e9249ed6 |
| 10:33 pm | Assisting another agency | 10 min | fc8b899d |
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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