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Colorado Springs, Colorado · one day

Friday 17 April 2026

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

39

drone flights over Colorado Springs that day.

12:16 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:39 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Colorado Springs police drones flew 39 times on Friday 17 April 2026, the first at 12:16 am and the last at 11:39 pm MDT, by Colorado Springs Police Department's published record.

39 drawable flights of 39. 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 responder92%
  2. Training and testing5%
  3. Not stated3%

Flights, in order

39 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
12:16 amDrone as first responder11 mind041c2a6
12:31 amDrone as first responder10 min3df393ce
12:52 amDrone as first responder6 min63ed28b2
1:18 amDrone as first responder5 min95eb9f67
1:25 amDrone as first responder9 mind855031a
1:36 amTraining and testing5 min79f35cd4
2:11 amDrone as first responder10 minba80ac6e
2:23 amDrone as first responder13 mina8a22758
2:41 amDrone as first responder6 minc8691cf3
7:32 amDrone as first responder12 min0c1a7eb1
8:48 amDrone as first responder17 minb0acfa30
8:51 amDrone as first responder15 min76656eed
8:55 amDrone as first responder13 min256e72ba
10:14 amDrone as first responder8 min6973d874
10:33 amDrone as first responder6 min921880ab
10:43 amNot stated6 min0ae99874
10:46 amDrone as first responder12 min1c63b671
11:27 amDrone as first responder12 mina2a94300
11:37 amDrone as first responder4 minaa8eb0f2
11:51 amDrone as first responder12 mind4c4739e
12:41 pmDrone as first responder11 minc31b9054
5:09 pmDrone as first responder14 mine40388a0
5:16 pmDrone as first responder18 minb2c11e1a
5:42 pmDrone as first responder13 min5aa122bb
5:57 pmDrone as first responder7 mindaf49e54
6:16 pmDrone as first responder11 min4936e179
6:42 pmDrone as first responder9 min245143bd
7:57 pmDrone as first responder9 min541395ff
8:47 pmDrone as first responder8 min7bd7c668
9:03 pmDrone as first responder9 min0b03c682
9:10 pmDrone as first responder14 min73bc9ddb
9:29 pmDrone as first responder13 minf75051c2
9:47 pmDrone as first responder13 minab9b5909
10:10 pmDrone as first responder4 min67de5a80
10:40 pmDrone as first responder16 mine2063f2f
11:00 pmDrone as first responder10 min6943c7a5
11:14 pmTraining and testing4 mina688ecd2
11:18 pmDrone as first responder6 minadab02af
11:39 pmDrone as first responder15 minb3ee151e

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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