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Minnetonka, Minnesota · one day

Monday 20 April 2026

15 drone flights from Minnetonka Police Department's published record.

15

drone flights over Minnetonka that day.

7:08 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:56 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Minnetonka police drones flew 15 times on Monday 20 April 2026, the first at 7:08 am and the last at 10:56 pm CDT, by Minnetonka Police Department's published record.

15 drawable flights of 15. 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, CDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Training and testing53%
  2. Call for service47%

Flights, in order

15 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)PurposeAirborneFlight
7:08 amCall for service17 min0db8e872
7:30 amTraining and testing1 min 00 s8fc8b0bf
7:36 amTraining and testing3 min138b8736
7:50 amTraining and testing2 min9be29208
8:04 amTraining and testing37 s188b1bf3
8:05 amCall for service12 min0b50f27d
8:24 amTraining and testing1 min 25 sceb7711b
8:41 amTraining and testing2 min 00 s73a593b7
11:14 amCall for service16 min4361ab73
1:14 pmTraining and testing18 min8b6b85a7
2:09 pmCall for service16 minf7793ec7
3:36 pmCall for service8 min9bb67a4e
5:16 pmCall for service15 minbdf506e7
5:42 pmCall for service16 min13764e5d
10:56 pmTraining and testing9 minb8311385

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
  • 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 fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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