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Colorado Springs, Colorado

Mesa, May 2026

A neighborhood page. 30 of the 13,302 flights in Colorado Springs Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

30

drone flights crossed Mesa.

30

of them in May 2026.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Mesa 30 times between 1 May 2026 and 31 May 2026, by Colorado Springs Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 May 2026.

30 of the 30 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.
MesaOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

27% 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 30 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 20268:33 amNot stated10 min6e662d60
Fri 1 May 20262:56 pmDrone as first responder16 minf04497e2
Fri 1 May 20263:01 pmDrone as first responder16 min06f2a29f
Wed 6 May 20267:56 pmDrone as first responder12 min0335241c
Thu 7 May 20264:13 amDrone as first responder9 min8d9e508c
Fri 8 May 202610:21 pmDrone as first responder14 min5264f9a6
Fri 8 May 202611:39 pmDrone as first responder15 minbf8a50f4
Sat 9 May 20262:24 amDrone as first responder18 min8d5838a1
Sun 10 May 20266:29 amDrone as first responder12 mina4a181bb
Sun 10 May 20267:33 amDrone as first responder9 min7162b897
Mon 11 May 202612:18 amDrone as first responder9 min92f44692
Mon 11 May 20269:20 amDrone as first responder20 min9e0ea5d2
Wed 13 May 20269:56 amDrone as first responder17 min5f9b4dd5
Thu 14 May 20267:40 amDrone as first responder8 mine8304d42
Thu 14 May 20265:48 pmDrone as first responder13 minb1466da3
Sat 16 May 20265:15 amDrone as first responder18 min6bf2edec
Sat 16 May 20266:25 pmDrone as first responder9 min76c1daaf
Mon 18 May 20269:51 amDrone as first responder15 min97636127
Wed 20 May 20264:47 pmDrone as first responder15 min113c3ef0
Fri 22 May 20266:57 pmDrone as first responder10 min3b34b0ce
Sun 24 May 20266:15 pmDrone as first responder15 mine14cb4c4
Sun 24 May 20268:55 pmDrone as first responder16 min873bdc9b
Tue 26 May 202612:32 amDrone as first responder19 min01f00a98
Thu 28 May 20261:16 pmDrone as first responder8 min7b923d50
Thu 28 May 20269:44 pmDrone as first responder13 minc2040d52
Thu 28 May 202610:20 pmDrone as first responder9 min467d00db
Fri 29 May 20269:22 pmDrone as first responder10 minc189caad
Sat 30 May 20262:51 pmDrone as first responder9 mindd40d120
Sun 31 May 20269:49 amDrone as first responder15 minedc72240
Sun 31 May 20265:14 pmDrone as first responder14 mina00af583

All 30 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. "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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