8
drone flights over Minnetonka that day.
8:58 am
first takeoff; the last was at 11:58 pm.
6 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Minnetonka police drones flew 8 times on Thursday 26 March 2026, the first at 8:58 am and the last at 11:58 pm CDT, by Minnetonka Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
8 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 (CDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:58 am | Call for service | 19 min | 8d8d2119 |
| 10:42 am | Training and testing | 6 min | 87705000 |
| 1:30 pm | Training and testing | 5 min | 9d5fe6c0 |
| 1:39 pm | Training and testing | 6 min | 095ce47a |
| 1:59 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 24 s | 7b3c990c |
| 6:36 pm | Not stated | 22 min | ac9b6f02 |
| 10:44 pm | Call for service | 10 min | e63a0c5b |
| 11:58 pm | Call for service | 5 min | b83cda1d |
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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