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Palmer Heights

A neighborhood page. 238 of the 13,310 flights in Colorado Springs Police Department's record crossed this area.

238

drone flights crossed Palmer Heights.

14

of them in October 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Palmer Heights 238 times between 5 February 2026 and 2 November 2026, by Colorado Springs Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 2 November 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.
Palmer HeightsOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

34% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (MST).

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 Palmer Heights, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. Feb 2026: 10 flights. 10
  2. Mar 2026: 22 flights. 22
  3. Apr 2026: 21 flights. 21
  4. May 2026: 35 flights. 35
  5. Jun 2026: 29 flights. 29
  6. Jul 2026: 31 flights. 31
  7. Aug 2026: 40 flights. 40
  8. Sep 2026: 35 flights. 35
  9. Oct 2026: 14 flights. 14
  10. Nov 2026: 1 flights. 1
Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26Nov 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 238 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Drone as first responder98%
  2. Not stated2%
  3. Training and testing0%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (MST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 20266:24 amDrone as first responder16 min423383bf
Fri 2 Oct 202612:44 pmDrone as first responder7 minb790552a
Sun 4 Oct 20268:19 pmDrone as first responder13 minff6079d8
Tue 6 Oct 202612:46 pmDrone as first responder11 min4a180ee1
Fri 9 Oct 202611:05 pmDrone as first responder9 min68eb6147
Mon 12 Oct 20267:07 amDrone as first responder7 min35dc3865
Mon 12 Oct 20268:40 amDrone as first responder12 min4829b0a5
Mon 12 Oct 20269:04 amDrone as first responder2 mineb15a2f8
Mon 12 Oct 202611:49 amDrone as first responder10 min44d418cf
Tue 13 Oct 20268:11 amDrone as first responder12 min94afa79d
Tue 13 Oct 20263:34 pmDrone as first responder9 minaf049c94
Mon 19 Oct 20269:53 pmDrone as first responder10 mincacbce47
Fri 23 Oct 20264:32 pmDrone as first responder8 mine9f6353d
Mon 26 Oct 202610:12 pmDrone as first responder16 min115fbecb

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. "Palmer Heights" 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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