7
drone flights over Rochester that day.
4:35 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 10:35 pm.
9 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Rochester police drones flew 7 times on Friday 18 September 2026, the first at 4:35 pm and the last at 10:35 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
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4:35 pm | Events | 18 min | 1f2654c2 |
| 5:06 pm | Training and testing | 6 min | 7e286f6f |
| 5:12 pm | Training and testing | 3 min | 76d235ac |
| 6:19 pm | Events | 1 min 56 s | 3287321e |
| 6:39 pm | Events | 19 min | c082e0a5 |
| 8:16 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 31876ac7 |
| 10:35 pm | Call for service | 9 min | 9fdae356 |
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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