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Colorado Springs, Colorado

Cottonwood Creek, March 2026

A neighborhood page. 7 of the 13,310 flights in Colorado Springs Police Department's record crossed this area in March 2026.

7

drone flights crossed Cottonwood Creek.

7

of them in March 2026.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Cottonwood Creek 7 times between 1 March 2026 and 22 March 2026, by Colorado Springs Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 22 March 2026.

7 of the 7 drawable flights that crossed the area in March 2026. The outlined area is the neighborhood. Paths run beyond it because each whole flight is drawn; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
Cottonwood CreekOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

2 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.

43% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (MDT).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 7 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Drone as first responder100%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, March 2026

DateTakeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sun 1 Mar 20261:39 amDrone as first responder17 minb6dd2001
Mon 2 Mar 202610:23 pmDrone as first responder14 mincbc9ef8c
Sun 8 Mar 202611:53 pmDrone as first responder17 mine3432915
Tue 10 Mar 20264:13 pmDrone as first responder16 min52c1bc9b
Thu 12 Mar 20269:30 amDrone as first responder12 minc2141486
Sat 14 Mar 20269:46 amDrone as first responder13 minfa270e3f
Sun 22 Mar 20262:47 pmDrone as first responder14 min58d3c25f

All 7 flights in March 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.

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.
  • Boundary. "Cottonwood Creek" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Colorado Springs (Neighborhoods_2022), licence "NOASSERTION". Boundary licence unconfirmed: the boundary is shown for orientation only.
  • A flight counts for this area when its path crosses the boundary; only the part inside is drawn.

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