7
drone flights over Minnetonka that day.
12:03 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 5:15 pm.
20 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Minnetonka police drones flew 7 times on Wednesday 7 January 2026, the first at 12:03 pm and the last at 5:15 pm CST, by Minnetonka Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CST.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:03 pm | Training and testing | 21 min | d933e31b |
| 1:20 pm | Training and testing | 5 min | f903be33 |
| 2:09 pm | Call for service | 20 min | 18b7da34 |
| 2:39 pm | Training and testing | 12 min | 8bbba64c |
| 3:37 pm | Call for service | 21 min | 65663b2d |
| 3:51 pm | Call for service | 21 min | 0538864f |
| 5:15 pm | Call for service | 20 min | 936d7f69 |
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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