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Colorado Springs, Colorado

Cottonwood Creek, April 2026

A neighborhood page. 14 of the 13,310 flights in Colorado Springs Police Department's record crossed this area in April 2026.

14

drone flights crossed Cottonwood Creek.

14

of them in April 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Cottonwood Creek 14 times between 3 April 2026 and 29 April 2026, by Colorado Springs Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 April 2026.

14 of the 14 drawable flights that crossed the area in April 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

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

36% 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 14 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, April 2026

DateTakeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 3 Apr 20264:00 pmDrone as first responder16 min5654e1c1
Sun 5 Apr 20266:04 pmDrone as first responder13 min9b9f825c
Sun 5 Apr 202611:35 pmDrone as first responder16 min9c60a1d4
Fri 10 Apr 202610:29 amDrone as first responder12 minf73e410e
Fri 10 Apr 20264:25 pmDrone as first responder11 min0df424d2
Sun 12 Apr 20263:01 pmDrone as first responder13 minf833fb22
Fri 17 Apr 20262:11 amDrone as first responder10 minba80ac6e
Sat 18 Apr 20267:49 amDrone as first responder15 min5967aea7
Mon 20 Apr 20267:13 pmDrone as first responder13 min10248f63
Mon 20 Apr 202611:35 pmDrone as first responder13 min63a57d96
Fri 24 Apr 20263:46 amDrone as first responder17 mincaefa6ed
Sun 26 Apr 20265:15 pmDrone as first responder12 min7325d07e
Tue 28 Apr 202610:57 amDrone as first responder12 min6adbe737
Wed 29 Apr 20263:34 amDrone as first responder10 min737aa317

All 14 flights in April 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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