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Denver, Colorado · one day

Wednesday 20 May 2026

24 drone flights from Denver Police Department's published record.

24

drone flights over Denver that day.

8:45 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:22 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Denver police drones flew 24 times on Wednesday 20 May 2026, the first at 8:45 am and the last at 10:22 pm MDT, by Denver Police Department's published record.

24 drawable flights of 24. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, MDT.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Patrol support100%

Flights, in order

24 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.

Takeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
8:45 amPatrol support4 min939d3417
9:06 amPatrol support9 minb901bb32
9:17 amPatrol support3 mine19cf2ca
10:06 amPatrol support4 minc6d1d0b2
10:19 amPatrol support7 mine735aff7
10:31 amPatrol support11 min136d0eed
10:44 amPatrol support7 min610e3456
11:14 amPatrol support11 minc3b1fdef
11:42 amPatrol support7 min6a1a0826
12:33 pmPatrol support7 min052d77b5
1:05 pmPatrol support7 min94fbc67c
1:47 pmPatrol support3 min35f17f78
3:40 pmPatrol support7 minde56f431
4:10 pmPatrol support4 min9a72ea67
6:05 pmPatrol support5 min0d9f796e
6:27 pmPatrol support3 minf7f7aac9
6:35 pmPatrol support5 min731b932d
6:51 pmPatrol support15 minf410fdf3
7:58 pmPatrol support9 min9260d65d
8:34 pmPatrol support9 min7458ccfe
8:59 pmPatrol support16 min177482c2
9:18 pmPatrol support12 min20046d35
10:07 pmPatrol support13 min3e0e0800
10:22 pmPatrol support6 min71fbaebf

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
  • 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 committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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