drone flights over Minnetonka that day.

8:16 am

first takeoff; the last was at 4:15 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Minnetonka police drones flew 9 times on Tuesday 16 December 2025, the first at 8:16 am and the last at 4:15 pm CST, by Minnetonka Police Department's published record.

9 drawable flights of 9. 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, CST.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Call for service67%
Training and testing22%
Not stated11%

Flights, in order

9 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 (CST)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
8:16 am	Call for service	20 min	`e245bbcf`
10:16 am	Training and testing	11 min	`2142d5ca`
10:30 am	Training and testing	6 min	`aefed4dc`
10:40 am	Call for service	12 min	`b3e0db3a`
11:44 am	Call for service	10 min	`a09bcc4b`
2:26 pm	Call for service	17 min	`85d14084`
3:02 pm	Call for service	15 min	`e2346b7e`
3:39 pm	Call for service	14 min	`77029e90`
4:15 pm	Not stated	20 min	`b0ac8aa6`

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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