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  4. October 2026
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Arvada, Colorado · one day

Wednesday 28 October 2026

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

22

drone flights over Arvada that day.

7:28 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:07 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Arvada police drones flew 22 times on Wednesday 28 October 2026, the first at 7:28 am and the last at 10:07 pm MDT, by Arvada Police Department's published record.

22 drawable flights of 22. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service41%
  2. Other23%
  3. Traffic and crashes18%
  4. Not stated5%
  5. Assisting another agency5%
  6. Training and testing5%
  7. Patrol support5%

Flights, in order

22 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
7:28 amNot stated9 min54f97b64
2:11 pmTraffic and crashes12 minf41d29bf
3:22 pmCall for service12 mineeadd6d2
3:36 pmOther19 min749fc6ec
4:16 pmCall for service9 min2103bb9d
4:51 pmCall for service5 min7d6efe24
5:00 pmAssisting another agency14 min0e030b99
5:28 pmOther10 minb9216f3c
7:07 pmOther7 min01127d77
7:11 pmCall for service9 min419500e7
7:22 pmCall for service12 minf3c4ec70
7:23 pmCall for service3 min94526fb6
7:32 pmCall for service13 min1bbfb679
7:45 pmTraining and testing6 minac996abf
8:17 pmPatrol support6 min1b1191c6
8:17 pmOther6 min9e047eb3
8:38 pmCall for service9 min5c33293d
8:56 pmTraffic and crashes15 min79c6e862
8:57 pmTraffic and crashes9 min6e575cc1
9:24 pmCall for service7 min247f0077
9:58 pmOther8 min7fbd2ef4
10:07 pmTraffic and crashes17 mina83ff07f

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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