drone flights over Minnetonka that day.

8:05 am

first takeoff; the last was at 4:26 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Minnetonka police drones flew 30 times on Thursday 21 August 2025, the first at 8:05 am and the last at 4:26 pm CDT, by Minnetonka Police Department's published record.

30 drawable flights of 30. 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, CDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Training and testing93%
Not stated7%

Flights, in order

30 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 (CDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
8:05 am	Not stated	12 min	`74bca3fc`
8:34 am	Training and testing	5 min	`dbb3ab5a`
8:40 am	Training and testing	53 s	`8ec40495`
8:45 am	Training and testing	46 s	`daa6273e`
9:30 am	Training and testing	8 min	`e2fd033f`
9:30 am	Not stated	21 min	`62947a66`
9:31 am	Training and testing	7 min	`00864372`
9:41 am	Training and testing	10 min	`d9271579`
9:41 am	Training and testing	10 min	`4078f0ca`
9:53 am	Training and testing	19 min	`af4fdee9`
10:10 am	Training and testing	17 min	`c4dfac06`
10:17 am	Training and testing	12 min	`1868c427`
10:30 am	Training and testing	6 min	`918bf9c6`
10:39 am	Training and testing	48 s	`00aa9212`
10:41 am	Training and testing	10 min	`e1af9a77`
10:51 am	Training and testing	10 min	`16ec601b`
10:59 am	Training and testing	3 min	`d9637bc5`
11:20 am	Training and testing	6 min	`b3f0766f`
11:20 am	Training and testing	7 min	`92ac12e6`
11:35 am	Training and testing	5 min	`7cbe7330`
12:43 pm	Training and testing	5 min	`10b5c64f`
12:49 pm	Training and testing	14 min	`434c1493`
12:52 pm	Training and testing	15 min	`d04369b0`
1:31 pm	Training and testing	6 min	`92bd95e8`
1:38 pm	Training and testing	4 min	`e23f8240`
1:45 pm	Training and testing	9 min	`c610d6cc`
1:45 pm	Training and testing	6 min	`54d23a32`
1:53 pm	Training and testing	2 min	`5315eb74`
4:24 pm	Training and testing	5 min	`083dbc19`
4:26 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`6c69d0a9`

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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