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Colorado Springs, Colorado

Sunset Mesa, May 2026

A neighborhood page. 30 of the 13,310 flights in Colorado Springs Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

30

drone flights crossed Sunset Mesa.

30

of them in May 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Sunset 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.
Sunset MesaOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

40% 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 202612:45 amDrone as first responder9 mind000bda6
Fri 1 May 20267:25 pmDrone as first responder11 min6f1adac2
Sat 2 May 20266:16 pmDrone as first responder12 min581f2f60
Sun 3 May 20261:46 amDrone as first responder9 minbad48fac
Sun 3 May 20263:49 pmDrone as first responder11 min823e09ed
Sun 3 May 20266:01 pmDrone as first responder10 min84bf6651
Mon 4 May 20269:32 amNot stated12 min998cb8e9
Wed 6 May 20266:55 pmDrone as first responder13 min027c5848
Fri 8 May 202611:48 pmDrone as first responder10 min27f63439
Sat 9 May 20266:22 amDrone as first responder7 mincdc98566
Sun 10 May 202611:03 pmDrone as first responder14 min124c1df2
Tue 12 May 20266:29 pmDrone as first responder18 minf705de3b
Wed 13 May 20266:55 amDrone as first responder14 minfb332208
Wed 13 May 20263:37 pmDrone as first responder11 minb5de991b
Wed 13 May 20269:07 pmDrone as first responder13 min0b46e483
Wed 13 May 202611:47 pmDrone as first responder9 min24826e00
Sat 16 May 20262:45 pmDrone as first responder9 min55017ba3
Fri 22 May 202610:10 amDrone as first responder13 min7e355960
Sat 23 May 20262:55 amDrone as first responder10 mina60d1545
Sat 23 May 202610:16 pmDrone as first responder15 mind20e4fea
Sun 24 May 20266:00 pmDrone as first responder15 min5fb3e479
Mon 25 May 202611:02 amDrone as first responder15 min18dd0da4
Mon 25 May 20267:15 pmDrone as first responder11 min3a9adeec
Tue 26 May 202610:55 pmDrone as first responder12 min6f8f44c2
Wed 27 May 202612:26 amDrone as first responder12 min70208ec9
Fri 29 May 20261:03 pmDrone as first responder13 min49a31bae
Sat 30 May 20262:24 amDrone as first responder13 min622d2e21
Sat 30 May 20264:24 pmDrone as first responder15 min1e5a9ee6
Sun 31 May 20261:54 amDrone as first responder15 min8051f51c
Sun 31 May 20262:04 amDrone as first responder15 min9adc472c

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. "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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