drone flights over Colorado Springs that day.

1:03 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:16 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Colorado Springs police drones flew 15 times on Saturday 21 February 2026, the first at 1:03 am and the last at 11:16 pm MST, by Colorado Springs Police Department's published record.

15 drawable flights of 15. 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, MST.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Drone as first responder100%

Flights, in order

15 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 (MST)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
1:03 am	Drone as first responder	4 min	`8d1b21c1`
3:15 am	Drone as first responder	18 min	`d8f536b2`
8:29 am	Drone as first responder	13 min	`cd78deff`
8:44 am	Drone as first responder	10 min	`5f251176`
9:53 am	Drone as first responder	15 min	`342f6067`
10:19 am	Drone as first responder	16 min	`e3d07893`
10:29 am	Drone as first responder	12 min	`289ba908`
11:51 am	Drone as first responder	16 min	`cf3b3360`
12:32 pm	Drone as first responder	10 min	`a7fba0be`
4:40 pm	Drone as first responder	4 min	`314fdaaf`
8:19 pm	Drone as first responder	19 min	`c069d1db`
8:50 pm	Drone as first responder	5 min	`f43faca7`
9:50 pm	Drone as first responder	9 min	`47ceb3eb`
10:43 pm	Drone as first responder	10 min	`7047b1e1`
11:16 pm	Drone as first responder	13 min	`17f5220e`

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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