17
drone flights over Arvada that day.
9:37 am
first takeoff; the last was at 9:54 pm.
12 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Arvada police drones flew 17 times on Saturday 3 October 2026, the first at 9:37 am and the last at 9:54 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
16 listable flights; 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:37 am | Training and testing | 14 min | b30f7aaa |
| 1:23 pm | Training and testing | 48 s | f469bf84 |
| 2:14 pm | Call for service | 16 min | 8d72039f |
| 2:54 pm | Call for service | 17 min | c108af52 |
| 3:11 pm | Other | 16 min | b7f10809 |
| 3:53 pm | Other | 13 min | 6becc540 |
| 4:18 pm | Traffic and crashes | 4 min | 6987575b |
| 4:43 pm | Search | 3 min | d6440496 |
| 5:33 pm | Other | 12 min | 20d34e86 |
| 6:23 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 56 s | 0659d1e5 |
| 7:14 pm | Training and testing | 2 min | a14d1ddf |
| 7:37 pm | Traffic and crashes | 16 min | a317055d |
| 8:50 pm | Other | 16 min | bfbad53a |
| 9:22 pm | Call for service | 6 min | 0fe6f26f |
| 9:43 pm | Other | 7 min | 437cfd81 |
| 9:54 pm | Call for service | 19 min | 71bf08f3 |
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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