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  4. October 2026
  5. 11

Arvada, Colorado · one day

Sunday 11 October 2026

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

18

drone flights over Arvada that day.

2:41 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 10:51 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Arvada police drones flew 18 times on Sunday 11 October 2026, the first at 2:41 pm and the last at 10:51 pm MDT, by Arvada Police Department's published record.

18 drawable flights of 18. 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 service44%
  2. Other39%
  3. Training and testing6%
  4. Patrol support6%
  5. Not stated6%

Flights, in order

18 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
2:41 pmOther19 min20f910a9
3:09 pmCall for service21 min64a2b71b
3:45 pmTraining and testing4 min19cfd899
3:50 pmCall for service19 min017650a9
4:20 pmOther5 min812ff223
4:45 pmOther7 mine10f5121
5:35 pmOther11 min5bc224a9
6:02 pmCall for service19 min6dd68a37
6:55 pmOther9 minaa13d0b9
7:37 pmCall for service10 min40723a70
7:50 pmCall for service16 min2a3ed46b
8:48 pmCall for service1 min 46 s1efba928
8:55 pmPatrol support15 min5be816f8
9:35 pmOther7 min1c4a3efe
9:57 pmOther1 min 33 see7cbae1
9:59 pmNot stated9 minf8fefc4e
10:10 pmCall for service7 minf8172c52
10:51 pmCall for service16 min8821c58c

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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