8
drone flights over Rochester that day.
8:02 am
first takeoff; the last was at 4:14 pm.
9 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Rochester police drones flew 8 times on Thursday 16 April 2026, the first at 8:02 am and the last at 4:14 pm CDT, by Rochester 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:02 am | Call for service | 15 min | db9d0a96 |
| 8:34 am | Traffic and crashes | 7 min | 3713545e |
| 9:36 am | Events | 9 min | f99846e4 |
| 10:00 am | Call for service | 12 min | 7bf874ef |
| 10:38 am | Events | 9 min | f2aecb27 |
| 10:50 am | Events | 13 min | 7ee9b608 |
| 12:14 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 13 s | b2a9a027 |
| 4:14 pm | Training and testing | 4 min | c4b2f07a |
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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