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Denver, Colorado

Sun Valley, May 2026

A neighborhood page. 10 of the 2,240 flights in Denver Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

10

drone flights crossed Sun Valley.

10

of them in May 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Sun Valley 10 times between 7 May 2026 and 22 May 2026, by Denver Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 22 May 2026.

10 of the 10 drawable flights that crossed the area in May 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

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

0% 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 10 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, May 2026

DateTakeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 7 May 20266:53 pmPatrol support7 mine86ef469
Fri 8 May 202612:18 pmPatrol support8 min27852762
Mon 11 May 20267:06 pmPatrol support15 min3e407795
Tue 12 May 20262:55 pmPatrol support11 min015c66fb
Thu 14 May 202610:33 amPatrol support15 min3f6956be
Tue 19 May 202611:41 amPatrol support9 min99da3bad
Wed 20 May 20269:06 amPatrol support9 minb901bb32
Fri 22 May 20265:07 pmPatrol support10 min50df009f
Fri 22 May 20268:54 pmPatrol support16 minf0d65f5a
Fri 22 May 20269:24 pmPatrol support15 min69f7e1ac

All 10 flights in May 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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