6
drone flights over Denver that day.
8:36 am
first takeoff; the last was at 1:59 pm.
11 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Denver police drones flew 6 times on Tuesday 18 August 2026, the first at 8:36 am and the last at 1:59 pm MDT, by Denver Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, MDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
6 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) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:36 am | Patrol support | 4 min | ef06e63c |
| 8:41 am | Patrol support | 12 min | 72d2d22d |
| 9:26 am | Patrol support | 13 min | 10aa6cba |
| 10:02 am | Patrol support | 5 min | dbbfacde |
| 1:26 pm | Patrol support | 16 min | 259a1771 |
| 1:59 pm | Patrol support | 10 min | e0b0be64 |
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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