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Arvada, Colorado

South Central, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 33 of the 1,928 flights in Arvada Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

33

drone flights crossed South Central.

33

of them in September 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed South Central 33 times between 2 September 2026 and 30 September 2026, by Arvada Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 September 2026.

33 of the 33 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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

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

3% 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 33 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service58%
  2. Other21%
  3. Assisting another agency6%
  4. Traffic and crashes6%
  5. Search6%
  6. Training and testing3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 2 Sep 20269:19 amAssisting another agency9 min58e435fd
Wed 2 Sep 20265:02 pmCall for service9 min1cceba3c
Wed 2 Sep 20266:04 pmTraffic and crashes7 min5ca5f7c3
Wed 2 Sep 20269:25 pmOther17 mine9f64898
Thu 3 Sep 20263:10 pmCall for service13 min94c39607
Thu 3 Sep 20266:33 pmCall for service9 min0e1bf0a6
Thu 3 Sep 20269:00 pmCall for service16 minafcb4fe7
Sun 6 Sep 20261:26 pmCall for service15 minfb31fa24
Mon 7 Sep 20267:38 pmCall for service13 minfce747cc
Tue 8 Sep 20265:47 pmCall for service17 min49be561e
Tue 8 Sep 20266:21 pmOther17 mind3851b2b
Tue 8 Sep 20268:35 pmOther9 minc1e4f8a2
Wed 9 Sep 20262:09 pmOther10 min4b09748d
Wed 9 Sep 20264:36 pmCall for service13 min0d2ae94f
Fri 11 Sep 20261:27 pmCall for service17 min5d77f71b
Fri 11 Sep 20263:12 pmCall for service17 min21b07689
Fri 11 Sep 20267:15 pmAssisting another agency7 mineff18174
Sun 13 Sep 20262:10 pmOther10 min9a5188f8
Sun 13 Sep 20267:05 pmCall for service17 min41d098f6
Mon 14 Sep 20265:55 pmCall for service9 minca898c7c
Mon 14 Sep 20269:32 pmCall for service13 mincb823b38
Tue 15 Sep 20262:37 pmTraining and testing6 min006f51e2
Wed 16 Sep 20262:30 pmCall for service17 minc08839ca
Fri 18 Sep 20262:43 pmCall for service18 min53730a61
Fri 18 Sep 20267:30 pmOther19 minca5c942c
Fri 25 Sep 202612:10 pmCall for service14 min855e12de
Fri 25 Sep 20262:45 pmTraffic and crashes9 min76211b52
Sat 26 Sep 20269:52 pmCall for service8 min1f9f343d
Mon 28 Sep 20266:31 pmCall for service15 min63358781
Tue 29 Sep 20263:49 pmSearch18 mina074ea83
Tue 29 Sep 20264:22 pmSearch7 min68c70bf7
Tue 29 Sep 20264:51 pmOther10 min909295e1
Wed 30 Sep 202610:26 pmCall for service16 minad75c015

All 33 flights in September 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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