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Sunset Mesa

A neighborhood page. 208 of the 13,302 flights in Colorado Springs Police Department's record crossed this area.

208

drone flights crossed Sunset Mesa.

13

of them in October 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Sunset Mesa 208 times between 5 February 2026 and 27 October 2026, by Colorado Springs Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 27 October 2026.

13 of the 13 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.
Sunset MesaOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

36% 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 Sunset Mesa, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. Feb 2026: 16 flights. 16
  2. Mar 2026: 18 flights. 18
  3. Apr 2026: 20 flights. 20
  4. May 2026: 30 flights. 30
  5. Jun 2026: 24 flights. 24
  6. Jul 2026: 22 flights. 22
  7. Aug 2026: 28 flights. 28
  8. Sep 2026: 37 flights. 37
  9. Oct 2026: 13 flights. 13
Feb 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 208 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Drone as first responder98%
  2. Not stated2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sun 4 Oct 20267:08 amDrone as first responder12 min86e72154
Mon 5 Oct 202610:53 amDrone as first responder9 min86e591f5
Mon 5 Oct 20265:56 pmDrone as first responder12 min0c3a1eb6
Mon 5 Oct 20269:24 pmDrone as first responder14 minb784c301
Mon 5 Oct 202610:23 pmDrone as first responder10 min0ccb0970
Tue 6 Oct 20265:06 amDrone as first responder13 mine786e005
Thu 8 Oct 202611:24 pmDrone as first responder13 mine62cfbc1
Fri 9 Oct 202612:03 amDrone as first responder17 min885f87ad
Sun 11 Oct 202610:43 amDrone as first responder11 min62634866
Sun 11 Oct 202612:23 pmDrone as first responder11 min82c4e96b
Sun 11 Oct 20269:07 pmNot stated10 min758d916c
Mon 19 Oct 20269:42 pmDrone as first responder14 min31aaa4ec
Tue 27 Oct 20264:42 pmDrone as first responder12 mincd7b63ca

All 13 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. "Sunset 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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