7
drone flights over Rochester that day.
8:21 am
first takeoff; the last was at 12:32 pm.
9 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Rochester police drones flew 7 times on Thursday 13 August 2026, the first at 8:21 am and the last at 12:32 pm CDT, by Rochester Police Department's published record.
One flight; takeoff and landing removed
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
7 listable flights. Flights in the latest full month link to their own page.
| Takeoff (CDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:21 am | Events | 19 min | 0455517b |
| 9:14 am | Events | 16 min | 2fa7b92d |
| 9:46 am | Call for service | 7 min | 4c5137a1 |
| 11:08 am | Events | 11 min | 2e5b357e |
| 11:10 am | Events | 9 min | ea5453fb |
| 11:24 am | Call for service | 6 min | fe287e1c |
| 12:32 pm | Training and testing | 3 min | 9d72edfb |
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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