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Arvada, Colorado

Columbine, August 2026Boundary license unconfirmed, not for publication

A neighborhood page. 38 of the 1,924 flights in Arvada Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

38

drone flights crossed Columbine.

38

of them in August 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Columbine 38 times between 1 August 2026 and 30 August 2026, by Arvada Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 August 2026.

38 of the 38 drawable flights that crossed the area in August 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

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

8% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (MDT).

2 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 38 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service55%
  2. Other18%
  3. Assisting another agency16%
  4. Not stated5%
  5. Traffic and crashes3%
  6. Patrol support3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sat 1 Aug 20265:26 pmOther8 mine2d75c25
Sat 1 Aug 20267:36 pmOther15 min8176a347
Sun 2 Aug 20263:06 pmCall for service7 min59bec22b
Sun 2 Aug 20266:35 pmCall for service6 min615d657f
Tue 4 Aug 20263:13 pmCall for service11 min84c5504c
Tue 4 Aug 20264:36 pmCall for service11 minae588e49
Tue 4 Aug 20269:06 pmOther13 min237ee48d
Thu 6 Aug 20267:05 pmCall for service16 mina0325292
Fri 7 Aug 20266:30 pmAssisting another agency16 mind8e440d3
Sat 8 Aug 20263:43 pmCall for service14 min9a352551
Sat 8 Aug 20266:06 pmCall for service12 min5e0241d5
Sat 8 Aug 20266:33 pmCall for service16 minfcacb760
Sun 9 Aug 20264:53 pmTraffic and crashes9 min557c220c
Sun 9 Aug 20265:24 pmCall for service18 min209b25ff
Mon 10 Aug 20261:32 pmCall for service10 mina37a7b19
Mon 10 Aug 20265:14 pmOther16 min8014ca4c
Mon 10 Aug 202610:18 pmCall for service18 min7f10a096
Tue 11 Aug 20261:54 pmNot stated20 mina92352d0
Tue 11 Aug 20262:26 pmOther13 min9a8f05fa
Tue 11 Aug 20265:55 pmAssisting another agency8 min722964f5
Tue 11 Aug 20269:10 pmCall for service12 minc6412861
Wed 12 Aug 20263:24 pmNot stated19 min9dac9df0
Sat 15 Aug 20268:04 pmOther14 min205f8754
Sun 16 Aug 202610:31 pmCall for service9 minbab61f15
Tue 18 Aug 20263:09 pmCall for service6 min4b9212a0
Wed 19 Aug 20262:30 pmCall for service16 min52c5f7a9
Thu 20 Aug 20263:49 pmCall for service12 minfe57f1fc
Thu 20 Aug 20269:32 pmPatrol support13 min53580b8e
Sun 23 Aug 20269:43 amAssisting another agency9 min377d09fb
Sun 23 Aug 20261:58 pmCall for service21 min4a07a412
Sun 23 Aug 20265:40 pmAssisting another agency17 minbd6ba872
Mon 24 Aug 20267:51 pmOther13 min5d76f66a
Mon 24 Aug 20269:32 pmCall for service12 min2fd46d18
Mon 24 Aug 202610:24 pmCall for service12 min7ab5a136
Tue 25 Aug 20265:44 pmAssisting another agency17 minb821d1a2
Thu 27 Aug 20268:51 amAssisting another agency14 min6b9535b5
Sat 29 Aug 20261:38 pmCall for service14 minac2b69ee
Sun 30 Aug 20267:34 pmCall for service5 min9ba9031d

All 38 flights in August 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, 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.
  • Boundary. "Columbine" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Arvada (Neighborhoods), licence recorded as "NOASSERTION", in the place layer file for Arvada. Boundary license unconfirmed, not for publication: ADR 0003 bars paging a place whose licence is unknown or share-alike; this page exists only in the local demo.
  • A flight counts for this area when its simplified path intersects the polygon (shapely). The join uses the unclipped line; only the clipped line is drawn.

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