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Arvada, Colorado

South Central, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 42 of the 1,928 flights in Arvada Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

42

drone flights crossed South Central.

42

of them in August 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed South Central 42 times between 1 August 2026 and 31 August 2026, by Arvada Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 August 2026.

42 of the 42 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.
South CentralOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

7% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (MDT).

3 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 42 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service69%
  2. Other12%
  3. Assisting another agency12%
  4. Events5%
  5. Not stated2%

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 20267:51 pmCall for service15 min6adb6970
Mon 3 Aug 20261:45 pmCall for service4 min596d842a
Mon 3 Aug 20263:31 pmCall for service12 minf606052f
Mon 3 Aug 20265:51 pmOther13 min21169286
Tue 4 Aug 20263:13 pmCall for service11 min84c5504c
Thu 6 Aug 20263:19 pmCall for service12 minc2855d3f
Thu 6 Aug 20267:05 pmCall for service16 mina0325292
Fri 7 Aug 20262:54 pmCall for service9 min4074c096
Fri 7 Aug 20264:17 pmOther13 mina8b9937d
Sun 9 Aug 20269:01 pmEvents13 min29ebba43
Mon 10 Aug 20263:02 pmAssisting another agency8 minba6abb79
Mon 10 Aug 20267:40 pmCall for service14 minaa5f4f2a
Tue 11 Aug 202610:06 pmCall for service11 min9ae7bbee
Wed 12 Aug 20263:24 pmNot stated19 min9dac9df0
Wed 12 Aug 20265:15 pmOther7 min5395cc37
Wed 12 Aug 202610:56 pmCall for service11 min024102f2
Thu 13 Aug 20267:30 pmCall for service16 minc673f5bc
Mon 17 Aug 20262:24 pmOther9 min689f63ad
Mon 17 Aug 20262:48 pmCall for service17 minec00b4fb
Tue 18 Aug 20263:09 pmCall for service6 min4b9212a0
Wed 19 Aug 20268:38 amAssisting another agency8 mine0d2d4ab
Wed 19 Aug 20267:09 pmCall for service12 min37183d20
Wed 19 Aug 20268:09 pmAssisting another agency16 mind55078fc
Wed 19 Aug 20269:27 pmCall for service7 min51069690
Thu 20 Aug 20268:09 pmOther12 minfaaa5ca4
Thu 20 Aug 20269:06 pmCall for service9 min005cd01d
Fri 21 Aug 20267:27 pmCall for service15 min1ce61b38
Mon 24 Aug 20266:39 pmCall for service9 min3edfaef1
Tue 25 Aug 20262:43 pmAssisting another agency21 min458ef622
Tue 25 Aug 20264:43 pmCall for service5 min7a045e1b
Tue 25 Aug 20266:38 pmCall for service11 min881d6799
Tue 25 Aug 20266:56 pmCall for service12 min46275846
Tue 25 Aug 20267:15 pmCall for service22 min225e2d66
Tue 25 Aug 20269:09 pmEvents11 min3d26a15d
Thu 27 Aug 20268:51 amAssisting another agency14 min6b9535b5
Sun 30 Aug 20261:22 pmCall for service19 mineb87082e
Sun 30 Aug 20261:43 pmCall for service6 min3a81451d
Mon 31 Aug 20263:45 pmCall for service10 minfe0016c6
Mon 31 Aug 20265:09 pmCall for service21 mine75fe471
Mon 31 Aug 20265:27 pmCall for service19 minf16e8c8a
Mon 31 Aug 20265:54 pmCall for service12 min2a8433e5
Mon 31 Aug 202610:23 pmCall for service18 min60a70136

All 42 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, 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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