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Colorado Springs, Colorado · one day

Thursday 16 April 2026

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

47

drone flights over Colorado Springs that day.

12:45 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:31 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Colorado Springs police drones flew 47 times on Thursday 16 April 2026, the first at 12:45 am and the last at 11:31 pm MDT, by Colorado Springs Police Department's published record.

47 drawable flights of 47. 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

47 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
12:45 amDrone as first responder8 min01c83282
12:55 amDrone as first responder3 min5040b0eb
12:56 amDrone as first responder10 min401bbac8
1:17 amDrone as first responder6 min3b95ab60
1:33 amTraining and testing1 min 53 s288c9bb1
1:45 amDrone as first responder5 min10d46acd
2:20 amDrone as first responder7 min2e3fecb1
3:01 amDrone as first responder9 mindc6e86ef
4:26 amDrone as first responder15 min75a471db
5:37 amDrone as first responder5 min7e10126b
5:53 amDrone as first responder15 min8ed131f8
6:51 amDrone as first responder17 min578e3a76
7:16 amDrone as first responder15 mind81cbd7b
7:16 amDrone as first responder11 min0d8fc2f0
7:48 amDrone as first responder5 minc44f7391
8:16 amDrone as first responder6 min7ad2038e
8:30 amDrone as first responder13 min75116dab
8:38 amDrone as first responder11 mine40ec01c
9:12 amDrone as first responder11 min8d6a3aed
9:30 amDrone as first responder9 min097dc08c
9:46 amDrone as first responder13 minf128c3ac
9:56 amDrone as first responder16 min42a3a1cc
10:04 amDrone as first responder6 min0082d3fa
10:05 amDrone as first responder11 min0e4caad6
10:08 amDrone as first responder13 min9286deee
10:29 amDrone as first responder4 min2b6ea8fc
10:33 amDrone as first responder10 min689115ff
11:38 amDrone as first responder11 min9897b7d9
11:43 amDrone as first responder14 min8219b68b
12:47 pmDrone as first responder13 min058e2b7c
1:03 pmDrone as first responder9 minb2c12c7a
1:47 pmDrone as first responder16 min4fd358a0
2:26 pmDrone as first responder12 min6d3a4268
4:43 pmDrone as first responder8 min24748490
5:23 pmDrone as first responder11 minbeeb435c
8:22 pmDrone as first responder13 min58b77119
8:34 pmDrone as first responder16 min1abc45de
9:07 pmDrone as first responder16 mine341df1e
9:30 pmDrone as first responder10 min95975d51
9:58 pmDrone as first responder15 min53364a31
10:07 pmDrone as first responder17 mina9de99c6
10:09 pmDrone as first responder6 min30e978a8
10:43 pmDrone as first responder6 min288c8cd8
10:57 pmDrone as first responder7 min0f5310fa
11:21 pmDrone as first responder8 mine1665051
11:25 pmDrone as first responder17 mind376bf08
11:31 pmDrone as first responder5 min1ec66dcb

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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