7
drone flights over Minnetonka that day.
8:18 am
first takeoff; the last was at 2:10 pm.
9 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Minnetonka police drones flew 7 times on Friday 20 February 2026, the first at 8:18 am and the last at 2:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:18 am | Call for service | 17 min | 8150e116 |
| 9:21 am | Training and testing | 2 min | f2ea467d |
| 10:11 am | Call for service | 9 min | 0dfd1a5d |
| 10:52 am | Training and testing | 9 min | 9d7687ce |
| 11:04 am | Training and testing | 4 min | c5d120e7 |
| 12:28 pm | Call for service | 11 min | e0bfed7e |
| 2:10 pm | Call for service | 10 min | b5d55779 |
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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