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Colorado Springs, Colorado

Mesa, April 2026

A neighborhood page. 16 of the 13,310 flights in Colorado Springs Police Department's record crossed this area in April 2026.

16

drone flights crossed Mesa.

16

of them in April 2026.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Mesa 16 times between 1 April 2026 and 27 April 2026, by Colorado Springs Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 27 April 2026.

16 of the 16 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.
MesaOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

19% 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 16 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
Wed 1 Apr 20262:56 pmDrone as first responder15 min29b97304
Thu 2 Apr 20261:26 amDrone as first responder16 min3b63ba28
Fri 3 Apr 20268:04 amDrone as first responder15 mine65ca04a
Fri 3 Apr 202611:21 pmDrone as first responder16 min94e24aad
Sat 4 Apr 20265:54 pmDrone as first responder11 min35e37504
Thu 9 Apr 20261:19 pmDrone as first responder16 minbb6fb068
Thu 9 Apr 20268:06 pmDrone as first responder16 mind35c6c5e
Wed 15 Apr 20268:32 pmDrone as first responder13 min71652522
Thu 16 Apr 202612:47 pmDrone as first responder13 min058e2b7c
Thu 16 Apr 20261:03 pmDrone as first responder9 minb2c12c7a
Fri 17 Apr 20268:55 amDrone as first responder13 min256e72ba
Sat 18 Apr 20268:47 amDrone as first responder15 minba05db7c
Tue 21 Apr 20268:32 amDrone as first responder12 minead845e9
Sat 25 Apr 202611:09 pmDrone as first responder20 mina47afec5
Mon 27 Apr 20261:43 pmDrone as first responder12 mina60c5bbd
Mon 27 Apr 20262:02 pmDrone as first responder13 min4f1182b0

All 16 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. "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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