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Colorado Springs, Colorado

Cottonwood Creek, October 2026

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

14

drone flights crossed Cottonwood Creek.

14

of them in October 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Cottonwood Creek 14 times between 2 October 2026 and 29 October 2026, by Colorado Springs Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 October 2026.

14 of the 14 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 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.

29% 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 responder93%
  2. Not stated7%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 2 Oct 202612:36 pmDrone as first responder13 min84efa3b8
Sun 4 Oct 20267:08 amDrone as first responder12 min86e72154
Sun 4 Oct 202610:05 amDrone as first responder13 min95c4fde8
Sun 4 Oct 20266:08 pmDrone as first responder12 min6dc7c441
Mon 5 Oct 20265:26 pmDrone as first responder12 mind8cb62dd
Tue 6 Oct 20265:06 amDrone as first responder13 mine786e005
Tue 6 Oct 202610:56 pmDrone as first responder13 min4abedd81
Thu 8 Oct 202611:24 pmDrone as first responder13 mine62cfbc1
Fri 9 Oct 20268:26 pmDrone as first responder15 min095735a9
Sun 11 Oct 20267:16 pmDrone as first responder17 min55e85448
Sun 11 Oct 20269:07 pmNot stated10 min758d916c
Tue 13 Oct 20269:05 amDrone as first responder17 min6fb2f473
Tue 20 Oct 20262:16 amDrone as first responder18 min1ab3f50b
Thu 29 Oct 20264:23 pmDrone as first responder15 min54935fcd

All 14 flights in October 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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