8
drone flights over Rochester that day.
8:55 am
first takeoff; the last was at 8:28 pm.
7 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Rochester police drones flew 8 times on Tuesday 3 March 2026, the first at 8:55 am and the last at 8:28 pm CST, by Rochester 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
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 (CST) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:55 am | Call for service | 12 min | 41aa4516 |
| 9:22 am | Call for service | 10 min | a3f6e372 |
| 12:49 pm | Call for service | 12 min | c348542e |
| 2:54 pm | Training and testing | 54 s | db27ea5d |
| 4:16 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 16 s | 636e3450 |
| 5:28 pm | Training and testing | 59 s | b2176a13 |
| 6:47 pm | Training and testing | 5 min | d13d9cd0 |
| 8:28 pm | Call for service | 14 min | 61442e2a |
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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