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Denver, Colorado

Sun Valley, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 15 of the 2,240 flights in Denver Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

15

drone flights crossed Sun Valley.

15

of them in September 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Sun Valley 15 times between 1 September 2026 and 30 September 2026, by Denver Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 September 2026.

15 of the 15 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.
Sun ValleyOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

3 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 15 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, September 2026

DateTakeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 1 Sep 20263:04 pmPatrol support9 minf333042b
Tue 8 Sep 20261:31 pmPatrol support9 mind9e6231e
Thu 10 Sep 20269:41 amPatrol support17 min6fa61320
Thu 10 Sep 20269:59 amPatrol support10 min9c819042
Fri 11 Sep 20268:04 amPatrol support6 min46db6b31
Fri 11 Sep 20268:26 amPatrol support11 min6cb63607
Fri 11 Sep 20268:41 amPatrol support11 min4a038caf
Fri 11 Sep 202610:43 amPatrol support11 mina19888ae
Fri 18 Sep 202611:35 amPatrol support13 minb355f5cf
Fri 18 Sep 202612:57 pmPatrol support11 minde649497
Mon 21 Sep 20265:02 pmPatrol support9 min4c5210cc
Wed 23 Sep 20269:47 pmPatrol support16 min9b792a1e
Fri 25 Sep 20267:53 pmPatrol support13 mincacd39c2
Tue 29 Sep 20264:21 pmPatrol support7 min524f71c4
Wed 30 Sep 20266:53 pmPatrol support15 mind65b9dbb

All 15 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, 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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