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Arvada, Colorado

South Central, May 2026

A neighborhood page. 7 of the 1,928 flights in Arvada Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

7

drone flights crossed South Central.

7

of them in May 2026.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed South Central 7 times between 27 May 2026 and 30 May 2026, by Arvada Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 May 2026.

7 of the 7 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.
South CentralOne 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 7 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service57%
  2. Other29%
  3. Training and testing14%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, May 2026

DateTakeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 27 May 20268:20 amOther10 min60ef7fb2
Wed 27 May 202611:32 amCall for service20 min70d1148b
Wed 27 May 20261:12 pmCall for service6 min4d8d3f9d
Wed 27 May 20261:19 pmCall for service21 mindf332701
Thu 28 May 20264:56 pmCall for service14 min15eb138c
Fri 29 May 202610:46 amTraining and testing4 min3dbc90ac
Sat 30 May 202611:29 amOther16 min30aa34a2

All 7 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. "South Central" 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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