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Aurora, Colorado · one day

Friday 17 April 2026

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

28

drone flights over Aurora that day.

12:41 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:59 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Aurora police drones flew 28 times on Friday 17 April 2026, the first at 12:41 am and the last at 11:59 pm MDT, by Aurora Police Department's published record.

28 drawable flights of 28. 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. Not stated39%
  2. Other36%
  3. Call for service18%
  4. Traffic and crashes7%

Flights, in order

28 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
12:41 amNot stated24 minAUPD-260
1:05 amCall for service16 minAUPD-260
8:21 amOther14 minAUPD-260
8:52 amTraffic and crashes12 minAUPD-260
9:10 amCall for service7 minAUPD-260
9:22 amCall for service24 minAUPD-260
9:34 amNot stated19 minAUPD-260
10:13 amOther10 minAUPD-260
10:31 amCall for service12 minAUPD-260
11:06 amNot stated3 minAUPD-260
3:25 pmNot stated8 minAUPD-260
3:28 pmNot stated25 minAUPD-260
3:35 pmNot stated6 minAUPD-260
3:49 pmOther25 minAUPD-260
4:07 pmNot stated24 minAUPD-260
5:00 pmNot stated9 minAUPD-260
5:22 pmOther11 minAUPD-260
5:49 pmOther16 minAUPD-260
7:41 pmOther10 minAUPD-260
7:53 pmCall for service13 minAUPD-260
8:04 pmOther21 minAUPD-260
8:42 pmTraffic and crashes12 minAUPD-260
9:10 pmNot stated6 minAUPD-260
9:17 pmOther24 minAUPD-260
9:44 pmOther16 minAUPD-260
10:25 pmNot stated3 minAUPD-260
10:35 pmOther13 minAUPD-260
11:59 pmNot stated6 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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