drone flights over Durango that day.

9:34 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:14 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Durango police drones flew 16 times on Tuesday 7 July 2026, the first at 9:34 am and the last at 11:14 pm MDT, by Durango Police Department's published record.

16 drawable flights of 16. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.

One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, MDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Patrol support94%
Assisting another agency6%

Flights, in order

16 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
9:34 am	Patrol support	19 min	`a2c6b47c`
9:56 am	Patrol support	13 min	`be761a51`
11:54 am	Patrol support	20 min	`f421ce92`
1:06 pm	Patrol support	11 min	`ce98eb1e`
2:30 pm	Patrol support	10 min	`f57f7197`
3:19 pm	Patrol support	1 min 31 s	`ae2671db`
4:07 pm	Patrol support	12 min	`d9be3730`
5:07 pm	Patrol support	6 min	`fb52ac3e`
5:27 pm	Assisting another agency	18 min	`0c3f4209`
6:29 pm	Patrol support	5 min	`ba95a287`
6:45 pm	Patrol support	16 min	`05e08627`
7:46 pm	Patrol support	19 min	`38555960`
9:49 pm	Patrol support	4 min	`ab47e11a`
10:00 pm	Patrol support	9 min	`14780274`
10:15 pm	Patrol support	7 min	`1d2e85be`
11:14 pm	Patrol support	21 min	`bdf2ac12`

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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