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West Colfax

A neighborhood page. 54 of the 2,240 flights in Denver Police Department's record crossed this area.

54

drone flights crossed West Colfax.

12

of them in October 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed West Colfax 54 times between 5 November 2025 and 30 October 2026, by Denver Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 October 2026.

12 of the 12 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 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.
West ColfaxOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

0% 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.

Month by month

Flights that crossed West Colfax, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. 8
  2. 0
  3. 7
  4. 2
  5. 4
  6. 5
  7. 1
  8. 3
  9. 3
  10. 2
  11. 7
  12. 12
Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The two hatched bars are the most recent months and are provisional. The current month is still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 54 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Patrol support89%
  2. Other9%
  3. Not stated2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (MST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 6 Oct 20264:19 pmPatrol support8 mind1771f49
Wed 7 Oct 20264:08 pmPatrol support11 minba310bd8
Tue 13 Oct 20268:33 amPatrol support15 min44e6bf82
Tue 13 Oct 20268:48 amPatrol support11 min3b876fa8
Tue 13 Oct 20266:19 pmPatrol support13 min7af3582c
Fri 16 Oct 202611:33 amPatrol support14 minae08b6dc
Mon 19 Oct 20269:40 amPatrol support15 minf3beac9f
Mon 19 Oct 202611:32 amPatrol support10 mina93e9ada
Mon 19 Oct 20267:35 pmPatrol support12 min7995b45a
Tue 20 Oct 20261:32 pmPatrol support16 min8b846514
Wed 28 Oct 20266:53 pmPatrol support11 min12d2a973
Fri 30 Oct 20261:00 pmPatrol support14 minb5ca75d1

All 12 flights in October 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. "West Colfax" 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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