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Colorado Springs, Colorado

Cottonwood Creek, May 2026

A neighborhood page. 29 of the 13,310 flights in Colorado Springs Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

29

drone flights crossed Cottonwood Creek.

29

of them in May 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Cottonwood Creek 29 times between 1 May 2026 and 30 May 2026, by Colorado Springs Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 May 2026.

29 of the 29 drawable flights that crossed the area in May 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

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

34% 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 29 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Drone as first responder97%
  2. Not stated3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, May 2026

DateTakeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 1 May 20267:25 pmDrone as first responder11 min6f1adac2
Sun 3 May 20263:49 pmDrone as first responder11 min823e09ed
Mon 4 May 20269:32 amNot stated12 min998cb8e9
Tue 5 May 20264:19 amDrone as first responder17 min70b3ac75
Wed 6 May 20266:55 pmDrone as first responder13 min027c5848
Thu 7 May 202611:45 pmDrone as first responder18 mind224f144
Fri 8 May 202610:58 pmDrone as first responder11 mind624f93b
Fri 8 May 202611:48 pmDrone as first responder10 min27f63439
Sat 9 May 20266:22 amDrone as first responder7 mincdc98566
Sat 9 May 202610:20 amDrone as first responder9 mina7e7cbdc
Wed 13 May 20263:37 pmDrone as first responder11 minb5de991b
Wed 13 May 202611:22 pmDrone as first responder13 min45b75ca3
Thu 14 May 20267:50 amDrone as first responder15 min7e53f63a
Sat 16 May 20262:45 pmDrone as first responder9 min55017ba3
Sat 16 May 20269:42 pmDrone as first responder13 minf59dd71c
Mon 18 May 202612:44 amDrone as first responder14 min1d6cb3fe
Fri 22 May 20265:54 pmDrone as first responder13 min64cb6e11
Sat 23 May 20262:55 amDrone as first responder10 mina60d1545
Sat 23 May 20269:42 pmDrone as first responder15 minf6d84acb
Sat 23 May 202610:16 pmDrone as first responder15 mind20e4fea
Sat 23 May 202610:30 pmDrone as first responder15 min27f56c08
Sun 24 May 20266:00 pmDrone as first responder15 min5fb3e479
Mon 25 May 20267:15 pmDrone as first responder11 min3a9adeec
Fri 29 May 20261:03 pmDrone as first responder13 min49a31bae
Fri 29 May 20265:47 pmDrone as first responder14 minc1b1ee31
Fri 29 May 20266:49 pmDrone as first responder17 minaefc4bee
Fri 29 May 20269:03 pmDrone as first responder12 min97f2907e
Sat 30 May 20262:24 amDrone as first responder13 min622d2e21
Sat 30 May 20264:24 pmDrone as first responder15 min1e5a9ee6

All 29 flights in May 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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