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Mesa

A neighborhood page. 220 of the 13,302 flights in Colorado Springs Police Department's record crossed this area.

220

drone flights crossed Mesa.

17

of them in October 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Mesa 220 times between 2 January 2026 and 24 October 2026, by Colorado Springs Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 24 October 2026.

17 of the 17 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.
MesaOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

47 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.

Month by month

Flights that crossed Mesa, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. Jan 2026: 2 flights. 2
  2. Feb 2026: 8 flights. 8
  3. Mar 2026: 11 flights. 11
  4. Apr 2026: 16 flights. 16
  5. May 2026: 30 flights. 30
  6. Jun 2026: 26 flights. 26
  7. Jul 2026: 38 flights. 38
  8. Aug 2026: 31 flights. 31
  9. Sep 2026: 41 flights. 41
  10. Oct 2026: 17 flights. 17
Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The hatched bar is the current month, still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 220 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Drone as first responder99%
  2. Not stated1%
  3. Training and testing0%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 202612:04 pmDrone as first responder12 mind0830fee
Thu 1 Oct 20261:12 pmDrone as first responder11 min24571917
Sat 3 Oct 20263:16 amDrone as first responder13 min0a0b1b1b
Sat 3 Oct 20262:52 pmDrone as first responder15 min3fb6e8f7
Mon 5 Oct 20261:17 amDrone as first responder8 min6dbb4d8e
Mon 5 Oct 20268:58 amDrone as first responder14 min306e741c
Mon 5 Oct 20266:24 pmDrone as first responder11 mind169fe33
Thu 8 Oct 20268:55 amDrone as first responder7 minb0ad82ed
Thu 8 Oct 20263:41 pmDrone as first responder10 min89745370
Fri 9 Oct 20267:00 amDrone as first responder11 min9565bdae
Sat 10 Oct 20267:51 amDrone as first responder14 min9d6dd698
Sat 10 Oct 20266:13 pmDrone as first responder7 mina6c84246
Sat 10 Oct 20268:23 pmDrone as first responder11 minb6e25efa
Sun 11 Oct 20262:11 amDrone as first responder15 mina9b8bb3e
Sun 11 Oct 202611:57 amDrone as first responder9 min803e79a2
Wed 21 Oct 20264:39 pmDrone as first responder15 min6653e5f6
Sat 24 Oct 20268:06 pmDrone as first responder12 mine9385721

All 17 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. "Mesa" 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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