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Colorado Springs, Colorado

Sunset Mesa, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 37 of the 13,302 flights in Colorado Springs Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

37

drone flights crossed Sunset Mesa.

37

of them in September 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Sunset Mesa 37 times between 2 September 2026 and 30 September 2026, by Colorado Springs Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 September 2026.

37 of the 37 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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

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

27% 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 37 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, September 2026

DateTakeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 2 Sep 202612:11 pmDrone as first responder12 minc5e484db
Wed 2 Sep 20261:00 pmDrone as first responder13 min913b3cf0
Wed 2 Sep 20261:09 pmDrone as first responder21 minc5436217
Wed 2 Sep 20261:31 pmDrone as first responder20 minc9ec26ee
Wed 2 Sep 20261:59 pmDrone as first responder13 mine5690d93
Wed 2 Sep 20263:04 pmDrone as first responder15 min0ed76470
Wed 2 Sep 20263:11 pmDrone as first responder8 min5f99e746
Fri 4 Sep 20261:12 amDrone as first responder10 minba994925
Sat 5 Sep 20264:04 amDrone as first responder15 min03a68d0a
Sat 5 Sep 20264:41 amDrone as first responder14 min77926568
Sun 6 Sep 20267:59 pmDrone as first responder11 minaa2f9f02
Sun 6 Sep 20269:50 pmDrone as first responder16 min5d70462c
Mon 7 Sep 20264:25 amDrone as first responder17 min7f501174
Tue 8 Sep 20268:26 pmDrone as first responder11 min3ec64d41
Wed 9 Sep 20261:50 pmDrone as first responder11 min6c034fd8
Wed 9 Sep 20262:56 pmDrone as first responder19 min4bb565a8
Wed 9 Sep 20265:12 pmDrone as first responder15 mina337eea8
Thu 10 Sep 20264:35 pmDrone as first responder8 min7fd91a25
Thu 10 Sep 20265:42 pmDrone as first responder10 min2750c0fd
Fri 11 Sep 202611:17 amDrone as first responder13 mind6cc2f51
Sat 12 Sep 202611:05 pmDrone as first responder13 min6c161db6
Mon 14 Sep 20262:37 amDrone as first responder13 minae7ac5f6
Mon 14 Sep 20269:28 pmDrone as first responder9 minab710621
Tue 15 Sep 20269:07 pmDrone as first responder12 min344cd0ab
Wed 16 Sep 20261:39 amDrone as first responder11 min75398dbc
Thu 17 Sep 202611:38 amDrone as first responder9 mina82569ce
Fri 18 Sep 20266:08 amDrone as first responder13 min10402594
Sat 19 Sep 20262:19 amDrone as first responder16 min9d59251d
Sat 19 Sep 202611:19 pmDrone as first responder16 minc13fbc67
Sun 20 Sep 202611:07 pmDrone as first responder15 min02f21157
Wed 23 Sep 20268:54 amDrone as first responder13 minbea9fcad
Sat 26 Sep 20264:53 pmNot stated11 minb6452e96
Sun 27 Sep 202610:19 amDrone as first responder10 mine38ef4f1
Sun 27 Sep 202611:57 amDrone as first responder10 min9b97f95a
Sun 27 Sep 20266:25 pmDrone as first responder11 min1f9902d6
Tue 29 Sep 20269:21 pmDrone as first responder11 min4ba1bcb0
Wed 30 Sep 20269:20 amDrone as first responder18 min1d0dc963

All 37 flights in September 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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