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Minnetonka, Minnesota · one day

Wednesday 17 September 2025

12 drone flights from Minnetonka Police Department's published record.

12

drone flights over Minnetonka that day.

6:47 am

first takeoff; the last was at 5:23 pm.

19 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Minnetonka police drones flew 12 times on Wednesday 17 September 2025, the first at 6:47 am and the last at 5:23 pm CDT, by Minnetonka Police Department's published record.

12 drawable flights of 12. 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

  1. Call for service50%
  2. Training and testing42%
  3. Other8%

Flights, in order

12 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)PurposeAirborneFlight
6:47 amOther20 minb83a633e
10:21 amCall for service17 mina2475dab
12:07 pmTraining and testing20 min97a178fb
12:33 pmCall for service18 min678f3150
12:55 pmTraining and testing22 mina1322e6f
1:24 pmTraining and testing21 mine40c7736
1:56 pmTraining and testing20 minb2dcbba0
2:18 pmTraining and testing18 min05bdfa40
4:09 pmCall for service11 min47a8bd2e
4:26 pmCall for service11 mina355d473
5:04 pmCall for service22 min4fc9f33a
5:23 pmCall for service11 minedee0daf

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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