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Colorado Springs, Colorado

Cottonwood Creek, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 35 of the 13,310 flights in Colorado Springs Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

35

drone flights crossed Cottonwood Creek.

35

of them in September 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Cottonwood Creek 35 times between 1 September 2026 and 29 September 2026, by Colorado Springs Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 September 2026.

35 of the 35 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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

7 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 35 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, September 2026

DateTakeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 1 Sep 202610:48 pmDrone as first responder15 minb1546533
Wed 2 Sep 20263:11 pmDrone as first responder8 min5f99e746
Fri 4 Sep 20268:50 amDrone as first responder14 mincd56096f
Sat 5 Sep 20264:04 amDrone as first responder15 min03a68d0a
Sun 6 Sep 202611:07 pmDrone as first responder10 min3ed8c1af
Mon 7 Sep 20264:25 amDrone as first responder17 min7f501174
Mon 7 Sep 20269:30 pmDrone as first responder13 min79e50924
Mon 7 Sep 202611:16 pmDrone as first responder13 min4414dedc
Thu 10 Sep 20269:18 pmDrone as first responder13 min94f09800
Fri 11 Sep 202612:46 amDrone as first responder13 min7d544ff6
Fri 11 Sep 202612:03 pmDrone as first responder11 minba043399
Fri 11 Sep 20262:49 pmDrone as first responder10 mind4cc40c6
Sat 12 Sep 202611:05 pmDrone as first responder13 min6c161db6
Tue 15 Sep 20269:07 pmDrone as first responder12 min344cd0ab
Wed 16 Sep 202612:13 amDrone as first responder14 min9e925ee8
Wed 16 Sep 20261:39 amDrone as first responder11 min75398dbc
Wed 16 Sep 20269:16 amDrone as first responder12 min1cd9dbd6
Wed 16 Sep 20264:36 pmDrone as first responder13 min94321efd
Thu 17 Sep 202611:38 amDrone as first responder9 mina82569ce
Fri 18 Sep 20261:36 amDrone as first responder12 mindf8a810c
Fri 18 Sep 20262:37 amDrone as first responder16 min85287a37
Fri 18 Sep 20262:59 pmDrone as first responder14 mine0141e1c
Fri 18 Sep 20265:32 pmDrone as first responder9 min32ce2def
Fri 18 Sep 202611:05 pmDrone as first responder11 mina7d027e7
Sat 19 Sep 20261:11 amDrone as first responder18 minabcfda2c
Sat 19 Sep 202611:19 pmDrone as first responder16 minc13fbc67
Sun 20 Sep 20261:08 amDrone as first responder14 mine95d8413
Wed 23 Sep 20266:28 amDrone as first responder11 min071b7eea
Wed 23 Sep 20263:37 pmDrone as first responder12 minc22b6b2e
Sun 27 Sep 20269:58 amDrone as first responder8 min5bd3aa67
Sun 27 Sep 202611:57 amDrone as first responder10 min9b97f95a
Sun 27 Sep 20263:31 pmDrone as first responder11 minb0ba89f9
Sun 27 Sep 20269:24 pmDrone as first responder13 minc508ceb0
Mon 28 Sep 202611:44 amNot stated11 minf892ad2c
Tue 29 Sep 20269:21 pmDrone as first responder11 min4ba1bcb0

All 35 flights in September 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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