drone flights over Arvada that day.

1:53 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 4:00 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Arvada police drones flew 4 times on Saturday 17 October 2026, the first at 1:53 pm and the last at 4:00 pm MDT, by Arvada Police Department's published record.

4 drawable flights of 4. 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

Training and testing25%
Call for service25%
Other25%
Assisting another agency25%

Flights, in order

4 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)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
1:53 pm	Training and testing	4 min	9aae3137
2:19 pm	Call for service	20 min	e606ee81
3:37 pm	Other	10 min	7d8c02e5
4:00 pm	Assisting another agency	13 min	70fa8e11

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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