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Aurora, Colorado · one day

Thursday 16 April 2026

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

31

drone flights over Aurora that day.

12:25 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:25 pm.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Aurora police drones flew 31 times on Thursday 16 April 2026, the first at 12:25 am and the last at 11:25 pm MDT, by Aurora Police Department's published record.

31 drawable flights of 31. 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. Other52%
  2. Not stated39%
  3. Call for service10%

Flights, in order

31 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
12:25 amOther12 minAUPD-260
8:18 amNot stated29 minAUPD-260
8:37 amOther20 minAUPD-260
9:14 amNot stated54 sAUPD-260
9:19 amNot stated19 minAUPD-260
10:26 amOther13 minAUPD-260
10:45 amOther20 minAUPD-260
11:14 amOther28 minAUPD-260
11:40 amOther28 minAUPD-260
12:03 pmOther14 minAUPD-260
12:11 pmOther32 minAUPD-260
1:00 pmNot stated13 minAUPD-260
2:59 pmOther24 minAUPD-260
3:02 pmOther18 minAUPD-260
3:40 pmNot stated12 minAUPD-260
3:45 pmOther19 minAUPD-260
4:44 pmNot stated14 minAUPD-260
5:20 pmNot stated18 minAUPD-260
5:47 pmCall for service1 min 36 sAUPD-260
5:57 pmCall for service24 minAUPD-260
6:23 pmOther21 minAUPD-260
6:39 pmNot stated7 minAUPD-260
6:46 pmNot stated17 minAUPD-260
7:13 pmCall for service7 minAUPD-260
7:54 pmOther21 minAUPD-260
8:23 pmNot stated16 minAUPD-260
9:20 pmOther16 minAUPD-260
9:43 pmNot stated14 minAUPD-260
10:20 pmNot stated13 minAUPD-260
10:43 pmOther9 minAUPD-260
11:25 pmOther21 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, 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.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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