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Colorado Springs, Colorado

Palmer Heights, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 40 of the 13,310 flights in Colorado Springs Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

40

drone flights crossed Palmer Heights.

40

of them in August 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Palmer Heights 40 times between 2 August 2026 and 31 August 2026, by Colorado Springs Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 August 2026.

40 of the 40 drawable flights that crossed the area in August 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

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

48% 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 40 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Drone as first responder98%
  2. Training and testing2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sun 2 Aug 20261:09 amDrone as first responder10 minf522434d
Sun 2 Aug 20261:10 pmDrone as first responder16 minda8f7db4
Sun 2 Aug 20261:43 pmDrone as first responder13 min216cc339
Sun 2 Aug 202610:31 pmDrone as first responder15 mined9fd292
Mon 3 Aug 20267:47 pmDrone as first responder18 minf9e4eb00
Tue 4 Aug 20264:15 amDrone as first responder12 min0b276da2
Tue 4 Aug 202610:23 pmDrone as first responder12 min0384c408
Tue 4 Aug 202611:06 pmDrone as first responder7 min5b4db45a
Wed 5 Aug 202612:12 amDrone as first responder16 minc1685bce
Thu 6 Aug 20263:49 pmDrone as first responder13 minf48216dc
Thu 6 Aug 20265:02 pmTraining and testing4 mincf090c26
Thu 6 Aug 20269:27 pmDrone as first responder15 min83e790c2
Fri 7 Aug 20264:16 amDrone as first responder13 min8a2d9db3
Fri 7 Aug 20264:17 amDrone as first responder15 min0b6da94b
Mon 10 Aug 20263:56 amDrone as first responder6 min1cd8c3a5
Mon 10 Aug 20264:48 pmDrone as first responder12 min8add4467
Mon 10 Aug 20267:44 pmDrone as first responder4 min3758c0ad
Mon 10 Aug 202611:34 pmDrone as first responder10 minf97bc191
Tue 11 Aug 20267:00 pmDrone as first responder10 min563bbf19
Tue 11 Aug 202610:38 pmDrone as first responder12 min7f975b84
Wed 12 Aug 20263:57 pmDrone as first responder19 min2798e35e
Wed 12 Aug 20264:12 pmDrone as first responder6 mind1cf2bbc
Wed 12 Aug 20266:54 pmDrone as first responder13 min363732d9
Sat 15 Aug 20266:07 pmDrone as first responder17 min365e6e52
Sat 15 Aug 20266:22 pmDrone as first responder12 minc8e7d1d4
Sat 15 Aug 202611:54 pmDrone as first responder7 minf5c17197
Mon 17 Aug 20268:21 pmDrone as first responder7 minf191c67e
Wed 19 Aug 202611:33 pmDrone as first responder15 mincce219da
Thu 20 Aug 20267:47 pmDrone as first responder18 min81434c47
Fri 21 Aug 20261:56 pmDrone as first responder7 min4e3631da
Mon 24 Aug 20263:21 amDrone as first responder9 min599fb1c4
Mon 24 Aug 20267:16 pmDrone as first responder14 minff8df01b
Tue 25 Aug 202610:34 pmDrone as first responder14 min3d5233b5
Tue 25 Aug 202611:54 pmDrone as first responder15 minf4ae95c9
Wed 26 Aug 20262:17 pmDrone as first responder18 min074c3b11
Wed 26 Aug 20264:47 pmDrone as first responder12 min65ceedb8
Thu 27 Aug 202612:20 amDrone as first responder16 minb32ab807
Fri 28 Aug 202612:47 amDrone as first responder9 minae55ff1d
Mon 31 Aug 20269:16 pmDrone as first responder12 mind754e6ee
Mon 31 Aug 202610:05 pmDrone as first responder13 mina2b75f8d

All 40 flights in August 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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