7
drone flights over Rochester that day.
8:05 am
first takeoff; the last was at 9:30 pm.
11 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Rochester police drones flew 7 times on Tuesday 18 August 2026, the first at 8:05 am and the last at 9:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:05 am | Search | 9 min | 6b9d584a |
| 10:45 am | Events | 16 min | 15bf15d7 |
| 1:41 pm | Call for service | 20 min | ce37c106 |
| 5:04 pm | Call for service | 12 min | d64b67f5 |
| 5:53 pm | Call for service | 8 min | dab8a18b |
| 7:28 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 451bd819 |
| 9:30 pm | Call for service | 11 min | bb121877 |
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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