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Colorado Springs, Colorado · one day

Sunday 17 May 2026

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

43

drone flights over Colorado Springs that day.

12:08 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:27 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Colorado Springs police drones flew 43 times on Sunday 17 May 2026, the first at 12:08 am and the last at 10:27 pm MDT, by Colorado Springs Police Department's published record.

43 drawable flights of 43. 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

43 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
12:08 amDrone as first responder14 mind5b9648d
12:22 amDrone as first responder15 min41db2b38
12:47 amDrone as first responder13 min6824dc9d
1:16 amDrone as first responder6 min4fc87378
1:19 amDrone as first responder9 mind9075059
1:29 amTraining and testing2 min9dc7d7e0
1:36 amDrone as first responder15 mine60aaabf
2:19 amDrone as first responder11 min758feee7
2:49 amDrone as first responder13 min83a66059
3:05 amDrone as first responder9 min761fb872
3:14 amDrone as first responder8 minfe4cfb14
3:50 amDrone as first responder6 min853b3ab7
4:06 amDrone as first responder16 minb6eebe10
5:35 amDrone as first responder12 mine7c1c754
6:39 amDrone as first responder10 min36c6de8a
7:06 amDrone as first responder7 min78829321
9:36 amDrone as first responder18 mincde0253d
10:38 amDrone as first responder5 minb9624d6e
11:20 amDrone as first responder9 mind2129ffd
11:54 amDrone as first responder6 min921faab9
12:08 pmDrone as first responder9 minf8b9d379
12:12 pmDrone as first responder12 min811124ad
1:39 pmDrone as first responder1 min 45 sa0018e92
3:07 pmDrone as first responder5 mind29999d8
4:38 pmDrone as first responder11 min70f8d3ba
5:36 pmDrone as first responder8 min59c5279e
5:42 pmDrone as first responder10 min3189099c
5:46 pmDrone as first responder11 mind6041e8f
6:08 pmDrone as first responder6 min97d10404
6:11 pmDrone as first responder19 min325f9721
6:31 pmDrone as first responder12 mina488a1ed
6:48 pmDrone as first responder4 minf104b1c5
6:59 pmDrone as first responder16 mina13714e2
7:28 pmDrone as first responder15 mind5d60f04
8:00 pmDrone as first responder15 min3f878ac5
8:07 pmDrone as first responder14 mind371ec3e
8:19 pmDrone as first responder19 min89f99559
8:22 pmDrone as first responder8 min4dacc88a
9:23 pmDrone as first responder18 min42ddc878
9:26 pmDrone as first responder7 min6d7a38f9
9:32 pmDrone as first responder15 min2b5c9501
10:22 pmDrone as first responder8 min2aa695d6
10:27 pmDrone as first responder16 mine80f3213

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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