drone flights over Minnetonka that day.

9:17 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:23 pm.

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Minnetonka police drones flew 9 times on Thursday 5 February 2026, the first at 9:17 am and the last at 8:23 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 service100%

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
9:17 am	Call for service	22 min	`bedbf627`
11:08 am	Call for service	20 min	`72b21690`
12:10 pm	Call for service	3 min	`b5dab9cd`
12:13 pm	Call for service	8 min	`456d4d77`
12:14 pm	Call for service	2 min	`3a2bfe29`
1:14 pm	Call for service	15 min	`59efe76e`
7:42 pm	Call for service	18 min	`7be31b6f`
8:02 pm	Call for service	19 min	`98716dbc`
8:23 pm	Call for service	18 min	`bda5814a`

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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