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Arvada, Colorado

South CentralBoundary license unconfirmed, not for publication

A neighborhood page. 177 of the 1,906 flights in Arvada Police Department's record crossed this area.

177

drone flights crossed South Central.

34

of them in October 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed South Central 177 times between 27 May 2026 and 30 October 2026, by Arvada Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 October 2026.

29 of the 29 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 2026. The outlined area is the neighborhood. Paths run beyond it because each whole flight is drawn, minus its first and last 200 m.
South CentralOne flight; takeoff and landing removed

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

5% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (MDT).

19 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are counted but never listed or drawn.

Month by month

Flights that crossed South Central, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. 7
  2. 26
  3. 35
  4. 42
  5. 33
  6. 34
May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The two hatched bars are the most recent months and are provisional. The current month is still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 177 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service59%
  2. Other21%
  3. Assisting another agency8%
  4. Search3%
  5. Training and testing2%
  6. Patrol support2%
  7. Traffic and crashes2%
  8. Events1%
  9. Not stated1%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 20265:06 pmCall for service5 min91364559
Thu 1 Oct 20266:14 pmCall for service12 min9b724387
Thu 1 Oct 20268:00 pmTraining and testing4 min7c009796
Thu 1 Oct 20269:13 pmCall for service17 mine9249ed6
Fri 2 Oct 20261:09 pmCall for service17 mine3a6608f
Sat 3 Oct 20268:50 pmOther16 minbfbad53a
Sun 4 Oct 20265:17 pmCall for service17 min177cbdf4
Sun 4 Oct 20265:48 pmCall for service12 min5f1fdf9f
Mon 5 Oct 20262:21 pmAssisting another agency17 min470b53c5
Mon 5 Oct 20265:09 pmOther10 min4feb56b3
Tue 6 Oct 202610:09 amCall for service11 minbca2dd84
Wed 7 Oct 20265:33 pmCall for service7 min48fd595c
Wed 7 Oct 20268:04 pmCall for service15 minf4d907fb
Wed 7 Oct 20268:45 pmCall for service10 min9d0cc140
Sun 11 Oct 20267:50 pmCall for service16 min2a3ed46b
Sun 11 Oct 20269:59 pmNot stated9 minf8fefc4e
Mon 12 Oct 20266:25 pmCall for service18 min85be20bc
Tue 13 Oct 20264:00 pmAssisting another agency13 min10ac6f56
Thu 15 Oct 20265:57 pmCall for service18 min19e1fd17
Sun 18 Oct 20266:53 pmCall for service11 minb2a25301
Sat 24 Oct 20265:20 pmOther6 min4c630f2d
Sun 25 Oct 20265:29 pmOther15 min82e75319
Mon 26 Oct 20266:14 pmOther16 mind8ae9e3b
Mon 26 Oct 20266:30 pmOther18 mine3c130f7
Tue 27 Oct 20268:19 pmAssisting another agency18 min156e6449
Wed 28 Oct 20262:11 pmTraffic and crashes12 minf41d29bf
Wed 28 Oct 20267:07 pmOther7 min01127d77
Thu 29 Oct 20267:24 pmCall for service9 min826746a6
Fri 30 Oct 20268:02 pmOther15 min9b7aa4e0

All 29 listable flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are counted in the totals but not listed. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
  • Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
  • 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. "South Central" 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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