DroneRecord
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  2. Minnesota
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  4. February 2026
  5. 24

Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Tuesday 24 February 2026

13 drone flights from Rochester Police Department's published record.

13

drone flights over Rochester that day.

7:47 am

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

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 13 times on Tuesday 24 February 2026, the first at 7:47 am and the last at 10:10 pm CST, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

13 drawable flights of 13. Each path is simplified, and its first and last 200 m are removed.
One flight; takeoff and landing removed

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, CST.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service54%
  2. Training and testing46%

Flights, in order

13 listable flights. Flights in the latest full month link to their own page.

Takeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
7:47 amTraining and testing3 min3f41090d
8:09 amTraining and testing3 mind1caa7f6
9:22 amTraining and testing11 mina13a866f
9:48 amTraining and testing2 minae28d162
1:55 pmCall for service6 minb439027d
2:02 pmTraining and testing4 min28464bb9
7:30 pmTraining and testing11 min88dbec26
7:55 pmCall for service15 min5d81db60
8:28 pmCall for service7 min1384f438
9:12 pmCall for service9 minc9422243
9:25 pmCall for service12 min0701a2b7
9:55 pmCall for service13 min33c1104f
10:10 pmCall for service6 min563278c7

How this page is made

  • Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
  • Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
  • 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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