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Denver, Colorado

Sun Valley, January 2026

A neighborhood page. 17 of the 2,240 flights in Denver Police Department's record crossed this area in January 2026.

17

drone flights crossed Sun Valley.

17

of them in January 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Sun Valley 17 times between 1 January 2026 and 28 January 2026, by Denver Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 January 2026.

17 of the 17 drawable flights that crossed the area in January 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.
Sun ValleyOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

6% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (MST).

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 17 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Patrol support100%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, January 2026

DateTakeoff (MST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Jan 202610:54 amPatrol support13 mine525cb48
Tue 6 Jan 20262:21 pmPatrol support14 min1b2d427b
Mon 12 Jan 20262:37 pmPatrol support11 min3df5a971
Tue 13 Jan 202610:32 amPatrol support10 mine2846080
Fri 16 Jan 20269:36 amPatrol support12 min5878decd
Sat 17 Jan 20268:54 pmPatrol support16 min7f5b4fd8
Sat 17 Jan 20269:34 pmPatrol support11 minc78a7a9c
Mon 19 Jan 20264:29 pmPatrol support13 min37837bed
Wed 21 Jan 20269:50 pmPatrol support12 min103d5ef5
Wed 21 Jan 202611:29 pmPatrol support12 min03102928
Thu 22 Jan 20263:35 pmPatrol support10 min27fce24d
Thu 22 Jan 20264:43 pmPatrol support11 min33e1908a
Fri 23 Jan 20266:17 pmPatrol support17 min49bd51fc
Mon 26 Jan 20262:07 pmPatrol support10 min3829c2f3
Mon 26 Jan 20263:09 pmPatrol support10 min42b973cb
Tue 27 Jan 202612:24 pmPatrol support8 min5045aaec
Wed 28 Jan 20263:33 pmPatrol support11 minc9e6a346

All 17 flights in January 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, 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.
  • Boundary. "Sun Valley" is a neighborhood polygon from City and County of Denver (Statistical Neighborhoods), licence recorded as "CC-BY-3.0", in the place layer file for Denver.
  • A flight counts for this area when its simplified path intersects the polygon (shapely). The join uses the unclipped line; only the clipped line is drawn.

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