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Arvada, Colorado

Columbine, May 2026

A neighborhood page. 10 of the 1,928 flights in Arvada Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

10

drone flights crossed Columbine.

10

of them in May 2026.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Columbine 10 times between 22 May 2026 and 30 May 2026, by Arvada Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 May 2026.

10 of the 10 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.
ColumbineOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

2 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 10 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Training and testing60%
  2. Assisting another agency20%
  3. Call for service10%
  4. Other10%

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 202611:46 amTraining and testing10 min29671a5f
Fri 22 May 20261:59 pmTraining and testing8 minb1a841e5
Sat 23 May 20268:17 amTraining and testing6 min76998558
Sun 24 May 20262:07 pmTraining and testing6 minea2aeb58
Sun 24 May 20262:14 pmTraining and testing7 min9a59a9a9
Tue 26 May 20262:05 pmCall for service16 min3c2c2b4e
Thu 28 May 20264:43 pmTraining and testing7 min7f851b09
Fri 29 May 20261:31 pmAssisting another agency13 mind2f77ea4
Fri 29 May 20261:38 pmAssisting another agency15 mina9d66395
Sat 30 May 202610:44 amOther14 mine6fe784a

All 10 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. "Columbine" 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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