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  5. May 2026

Arvada, Colorado

Alta Vista, May 2026

A neighborhood page. 9 of the 1,928 flights in Arvada Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

9

drone flights crossed Alta Vista.

9

of them in May 2026.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Alta Vista 9 times between 22 May 2026 and 29 May 2026, by Arvada Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 May 2026.

9 of the 9 drawable flights that crossed the area in May 2026. The outlined area is the neighborhood. Paths run beyond it because each whole flight is drawn; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
Alta VistaOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

1 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.

0% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (MDT).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 9 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Training and testing67%
  2. Other22%
  3. Assisting another agency11%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, May 2026

DateTakeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 22 May 202611:18 amTraining and testing5 minf616c8ad
Sat 23 May 20268:08 amTraining and testing7 min50540dd4
Sun 24 May 20267:51 amTraining and testing7 minc557b4c7
Wed 27 May 20268:42 amTraining and testing4 min628e6cb0
Thu 28 May 20264:12 pmAssisting another agency8 minc36e1f00
Fri 29 May 20267:31 amTraining and testing18 min29696c47
Fri 29 May 20268:52 amOther17 min662dfde5
Fri 29 May 202610:51 amOther16 min94ec295f
Fri 29 May 20262:15 pmTraining and testing5 min531f3ed0

All 9 flights in May 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
  • 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 fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
  • Boundary. "Alta Vista" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Arvada (Neighborhoods), licence "NOASSERTION". Boundary licence unconfirmed: the boundary is shown for orientation only.
  • A flight counts for this area when its path crosses the boundary; only the part inside is drawn.

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