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Aurora, Colorado · one day

Friday 10 April 2026

20 drone flights from Aurora Police Department's published record.

20

drone flights over Aurora that day.

8:04 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:20 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Aurora police drones flew 20 times on Friday 10 April 2026, the first at 8:04 am and the last at 10:20 pm MDT, by Aurora Police Department's published record.

20 drawable flights of 20. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, MDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Other55%
  2. Not stated40%
  3. Traffic and crashes5%

Flights, in order

20 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.

Takeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
8:04 amNot stated13 minAUPD-260
8:53 amNot stated6 minAUPD-260
9:04 amNot stated9 minAUPD-260
9:15 amOther17 minAUPD-260
10:04 amNot stated7 minAUPD-260
11:19 amOther7 minAUPD-260
11:36 amNot stated3 minAUPD-260
1:05 pmTraffic and crashes22 minAUPD-260
1:47 pmNot stated16 minAUPD-260
2:26 pmOther13 minAUPD-260
2:33 pmNot stated10 minAUPD-260
3:19 pmOther13 minAUPD-260
3:34 pmOther10 minAUPD-260
4:38 pmNot stated9 minAUPD-260
5:37 pmOther20 minAUPD-260
7:16 pmOther6 minAUPD-260
8:20 pmOther14 minAUPD-260
8:46 pmOther23 minAUPD-260
9:58 pmOther17 minAUPD-260
10:20 pmOther13 minAUPD-260

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.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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