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Colorado Springs, Colorado

Sunset Mesa, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 28 of the 13,302 flights in Colorado Springs Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

28

drone flights crossed Sunset Mesa.

28

of them in August 2026.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Sunset Mesa 28 times between 3 August 2026 and 30 August 2026, by Colorado Springs Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 August 2026.

28 of the 28 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.
Sunset MesaOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

6 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.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 28 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Drone as first responder100%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Mon 3 Aug 20261:26 pmDrone as first responder11 mina25f64cf
Sun 9 Aug 20264:52 pmDrone as first responder18 min77a2f24b
Thu 13 Aug 202610:32 amDrone as first responder12 min4fbc545f
Fri 14 Aug 20261:59 amDrone as first responder14 min9f36a6f5
Sat 15 Aug 20266:41 amDrone as first responder15 minb0b6dfa6
Mon 17 Aug 202610:48 amDrone as first responder15 min0491c061
Tue 18 Aug 202611:15 amDrone as first responder14 min52e8eb05
Tue 18 Aug 20266:38 pmDrone as first responder15 mincbc65b22
Sun 23 Aug 20263:37 amDrone as first responder15 minefe63429
Sun 23 Aug 20266:05 pmDrone as first responder12 min9e16d081
Mon 24 Aug 20263:16 amDrone as first responder17 min5eb90f5f
Mon 24 Aug 20267:10 pmDrone as first responder11 minef86fe22
Tue 25 Aug 20267:47 pmDrone as first responder14 min723358cf
Tue 25 Aug 202610:53 pmDrone as first responder18 mine73b60d4
Tue 25 Aug 202611:04 pmDrone as first responder15 minf2550fb6
Tue 25 Aug 202611:12 pmDrone as first responder13 min062a5a9d
Wed 26 Aug 20268:29 pmDrone as first responder15 min288c51e2
Thu 27 Aug 20267:01 pmDrone as first responder16 minc5b764c6
Thu 27 Aug 20267:18 pmDrone as first responder11 mine5b550af
Fri 28 Aug 20263:20 amDrone as first responder13 mind3bb771f
Fri 28 Aug 20264:23 amDrone as first responder17 minda41935b
Fri 28 Aug 20268:15 amDrone as first responder11 minf55e2455
Fri 28 Aug 202611:36 amDrone as first responder18 minba689b0a
Fri 28 Aug 20266:21 pmDrone as first responder9 min71b96dd6
Fri 28 Aug 20267:28 pmDrone as first responder11 minddfde336
Fri 28 Aug 20269:54 pmDrone as first responder17 min3729acd6
Sun 30 Aug 20262:01 amDrone as first responder5 min99bef9f1
Sun 30 Aug 20265:15 amDrone as first responder12 min143b0d64

All 28 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. "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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