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Aurora, Colorado · one day

Thursday 30 April 2026

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

27

drone flights over Aurora that day.

7:59 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:54 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Aurora police drones flew 27 times on Thursday 30 April 2026, the first at 7:59 am and the last at 11:54 pm MDT, by Aurora Police Department's published record.

27 drawable flights of 27. 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. Other48%
  2. Not stated41%
  3. Call for service7%
  4. Traffic and crashes4%

Flights, in order

27 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
7:59 amOther8 minAUPD-260
8:45 amOther12 minAUPD-260
9:16 amNot stated19 minAUPD-260
9:34 amOther11 minAUPD-260
10:37 amCall for service6 minAUPD-260
11:35 amOther21 minAUPD-260
11:57 amNot stated5 minAUPD-260
12:14 pmOther15 minAUPD-260
1:52 pmTraffic and crashes6 minAUPD-260
2:06 pmOther6 minAUPD-260
2:40 pmOther20 minAUPD-260
2:57 pmOther13 minAUPD-260
3:19 pmCall for service16 minAUPD-260
4:36 pmNot stated14 minAUPD-260
4:47 pmNot stated26 minAUPD-260
5:09 pmNot stated2 minAUPD-260
5:14 pmNot stated11 minAUPD-260
6:53 pmOther18 minAUPD-260
7:20 pmNot stated21 minAUPD-260
7:44 pmOther8 minAUPD-260
8:01 pmNot stated22 minAUPD-260
9:20 pmNot stated16 minAUPD-260
9:37 pmNot stated1 min 06 sAUPD-260
10:18 pmNot stated27 minAUPD-260
11:23 pmOther18 minAUPD-260
11:38 pmOther12 minAUPD-260
11:54 pmOther6 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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