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Colorado Springs, Colorado · one day

Thursday 27 August 2026

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

75

drone flights over Colorado Springs that day.

12:03 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:44 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Colorado Springs police drones flew 75 times on Thursday 27 August 2026, the first at 12:03 am and the last at 11:44 pm MDT, by Colorado Springs Police Department's published record.

75 drawable flights of 75. 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 responder99%
  2. Training and testing1%

Flights, in order

75 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
12:03 amDrone as first responder13 min87ef11dc
12:06 amDrone as first responder12 min5410f627
12:20 amDrone as first responder16 minb32ab807
12:32 amDrone as first responder10 min3c4e77c1
12:38 amDrone as first responder17 min8222ab12
12:42 amDrone as first responder13 mind7e89d6b
1:10 amDrone as first responder14 min3c60dfe5
1:29 amDrone as first responder8 minb6e6bc50
3:15 amDrone as first responder16 minf8cdc004
3:44 amDrone as first responder15 mind2631d11
5:06 amDrone as first responder15 mine3cf6e36
5:28 amDrone as first responder16 mincd4a500d
6:16 amDrone as first responder8 min25d55963
6:47 amDrone as first responder14 minb512dc9e
7:06 amDrone as first responder14 min41c04369
7:36 amDrone as first responder4 min5ae087f2
7:41 amDrone as first responder14 minb5fb5115
7:55 amDrone as first responder11 min8430effe
8:20 amDrone as first responder17 min5d7101ab
8:42 amDrone as first responder10 min087f909f
9:02 amDrone as first responder14 min6ebf41a8
9:53 amDrone as first responder16 min8e64a526
10:52 amDrone as first responder24 minfb0f12f4
11:15 amDrone as first responder19 min363829f7
11:17 amDrone as first responder18 min889616ef
11:20 amDrone as first responder14 min029b8204
11:30 amDrone as first responder13 min91865ef6
11:36 amDrone as first responder26 min79beae51
11:40 amDrone as first responder3 min8f20538e
12:04 pmDrone as first responder23 min49ab8c59
12:08 pmDrone as first responder8 minfd78c25a
12:25 pmDrone as first responder16 min9289723a
12:43 pmDrone as first responder9 min2d565b5e
1:16 pmDrone as first responder13 min118fe157
1:28 pmDrone as first responder15 minb1a00fa9
1:28 pmTraining and testing9 minb9c56f23
1:41 pmDrone as first responder9 min5375b542
1:55 pmDrone as first responder12 mind9f02702
2:04 pmDrone as first responder10 minc44ad66a
2:08 pmDrone as first responder11 mina84ec14d
2:34 pmDrone as first responder5 min14f3188a
3:05 pmDrone as first responder16 minda552fc5
3:11 pmDrone as first responder8 min738d5d04
3:16 pmDrone as first responder18 min071390db
3:22 pmDrone as first responder8 min01b4e316
3:45 pmDrone as first responder15 minfa7404e9
3:56 pmDrone as first responder11 min3ee42a3b
4:16 pmDrone as first responder8 min27339002
4:16 pmDrone as first responder8 min49c9060e
4:32 pmDrone as first responder9 min0b2d3076
5:00 pmDrone as first responder7 mina1631260
5:06 pmDrone as first responder3 min2f46ef60
5:13 pmDrone as first responder11 min1d095dcf
5:28 pmDrone as first responder16 minc74473ba
5:44 pmDrone as first responder5 min39104832
6:00 pmDrone as first responder11 mind0571295
6:10 pmDrone as first responder9 min90c0d4ad
6:38 pmDrone as first responder14 min07dcf1ce
6:48 pmDrone as first responder12 min7f9ba9ed
7:01 pmDrone as first responder16 minc5b764c6
7:18 pmDrone as first responder11 mine5b550af
7:49 pmDrone as first responder5 min405707c6
7:50 pmDrone as first responder7 min959fb7ff
8:20 pmDrone as first responder10 min75e8f24a
8:32 pmDrone as first responder11 min2684c1a1
8:41 pmDrone as first responder4 min2bd627ca
8:45 pmDrone as first responder4 min7a6d4982
8:54 pmDrone as first responder14 min4d4c08fc
9:34 pmDrone as first responder13 min433fe9eb
9:38 pmDrone as first responder18 minc03b3817
10:31 pmDrone as first responder15 mine1dca696
10:47 pmDrone as first responder13 min00665a5a
11:19 pmDrone as first responder4 min60ab54f7
11:23 pmDrone as first responder8 min0ff2d00c
11:44 pmDrone as first responder6 min33444dcd

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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