9
drone flights over Minnetonka that day.
10:33 am
first takeoff; the last was at 1:37 pm.
6 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Minnetonka police drones flew 9 times on Thursday 5 March 2026, the first at 10:33 am and the last at 1:37 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:33 am | Call for service | 17 min | 580a5b69 |
| 11:11 am | Training and testing | 48 s | a5cfea9b |
| 11:13 am | Training and testing | 16 min | 158a5244 |
| 11:32 am | Training and testing | 4 min | 6f3b1601 |
| 11:55 am | Call for service | 9 min | 35b42d44 |
| 12:32 pm | Call for service | 6 min | ddb5902e |
| 1:05 pm | Call for service | 14 min | 9df7552a |
| 1:30 pm | Training and testing | 6 min | 424a1bf9 |
| 1:37 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 04 s | 3def8b6d |
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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