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Colorado Springs, Colorado · one day

Thursday 9 April 2026

50 drone flights from Colorado Springs Police Department's published record.

50

drone flights over Colorado Springs that day.

12:31 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:52 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Colorado Springs police drones flew 50 times on Thursday 9 April 2026, the first at 12:31 am and the last at 11:52 pm MDT, by Colorado Springs Police Department's published record.

50 drawable flights of 50. 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. Drone as first responder98%
  2. Training and testing2%

Flights, in order

50 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
12:31 amDrone as first responder14 min8a36c610
12:46 amDrone as first responder16 min81f4fc24
12:53 amDrone as first responder12 minca7710ac
2:01 amDrone as first responder12 mine16d4d2d
2:16 amDrone as first responder7 min6aecdb4e
2:19 amDrone as first responder11 min88119547
2:52 amDrone as first responder10 min8d62eae1
4:00 amDrone as first responder11 mincfa9f1d1
4:16 amDrone as first responder4 mineb5ac467
4:24 amDrone as first responder11 min9e28cbfe
4:49 amDrone as first responder10 min5e50a186
5:12 amDrone as first responder10 min4fb7684c
5:23 amDrone as first responder14 minaded2960
5:57 amDrone as first responder19 min7590092f
6:30 amDrone as first responder9 min3072c1b5
6:55 amDrone as first responder14 min33de344a
7:11 amDrone as first responder16 min94181f5f
7:41 amDrone as first responder15 min4fe72f41
8:14 amDrone as first responder14 minbe852d22
8:38 amDrone as first responder14 min57fcc0f6
8:44 amDrone as first responder19 min7a43254e
8:55 amDrone as first responder19 min29531409
9:16 amDrone as first responder9 mind6f152a3
10:04 amDrone as first responder12 min28631107
10:42 amDrone as first responder12 min02e1132c
11:45 amDrone as first responder10 min92331647
12:02 pmDrone as first responder10 min3adfda96
12:10 pmDrone as first responder7 min620f9523
12:33 pmDrone as first responder10 min7f56420a
12:52 pmDrone as first responder4 min941f1130
1:19 pmDrone as first responder16 minbb6fb068
2:23 pmDrone as first responder6 min8d345cff
2:39 pmDrone as first responder12 mincf46d739
3:02 pmDrone as first responder3 minc4e071c0
6:09 pmDrone as first responder9 min0cd8b059
6:29 pmTraining and testing3 minefaf9106
7:31 pmDrone as first responder8 min883175e2
7:52 pmDrone as first responder17 minc739fce0
8:06 pmDrone as first responder16 mind35c6c5e
8:16 pmDrone as first responder10 minf8f54480
8:30 pmDrone as first responder11 min984a9654
8:47 pmDrone as first responder15 min47a9f390
8:57 pmDrone as first responder10 minf70baa38
9:40 pmDrone as first responder9 min46427a9b
9:40 pmDrone as first responder7 min8bf4ec38
10:00 pmDrone as first responder12 min156194c6
10:18 pmDrone as first responder17 min8d7f6e8f
11:26 pmDrone as first responder9 mincbd8a649
11:39 pmDrone as first responder5 minadf907bd
11:52 pmDrone as first responder12 mind3d5b0b4

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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