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Rochester, Minnesota

Downtown, April 2026

A neighborhood page. 167 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in April 2026.

167

drone flights crossed Downtown.

167

of them in April 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Downtown 167 times between 1 April 2026 and 30 April 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 April 2026.

167 of the 167 drawable flights that crossed the area in April 2026. The outlined area is the neighborhood. Paths run beyond it because each whole flight is drawn; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
DowntownOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

27 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.

9% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CDT).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 167 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service54%
  2. Events22%
  3. Training and testing21%
  4. Search2%
  5. Other1%
  6. Traffic and crashes1%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, April 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 1 Apr 202610:33 amCall for service12 min0b0eec4b
Wed 1 Apr 202612:11 pmTraining and testing1 min 20 s5692bf72
Wed 1 Apr 20261:19 pmEvents22 minc0d3de71
Sat 4 Apr 202611:32 amEvents13 mine1228df7
Sat 4 Apr 202612:03 pmEvents13 minda0a4753
Sat 4 Apr 202612:36 pmCall for service14 min0fc1fa6f
Mon 6 Apr 20269:49 amTraining and testing1 min 38 sc02e0f5f
Mon 6 Apr 20269:56 amCall for service13 min3f4bd2e7
Mon 6 Apr 202612:36 pmCall for service12 min0c643bfb
Tue 7 Apr 20267:37 amCall for service1 min 36 s32aa7a26
Tue 7 Apr 20269:59 amCall for service12 minfe72636d
Tue 7 Apr 202612:39 pmTraining and testing6 mincc326a36
Tue 7 Apr 20264:04 pmTraining and testing18 mina195c38f
Tue 7 Apr 20264:45 pmSearch13 min7cf25435
Thu 9 Apr 20266:01 amEvents1 min 48 sfcaafb3b
Thu 9 Apr 20266:03 amEvents2 min46e73e93
Thu 9 Apr 20266:08 amEvents12 min724593d3
Thu 9 Apr 20268:29 amEvents19 min6fa653e1
Thu 9 Apr 202610:18 amCall for service21 min9ca24ca3
Thu 9 Apr 202612:54 pmTraining and testing15 mine1743346
Thu 9 Apr 20261:30 pmTraining and testing12 minca115f40
Thu 9 Apr 20263:12 pmCall for service18 min17413f32
Thu 9 Apr 20264:07 pmCall for service8 minc6d85cb2
Thu 9 Apr 20264:23 pmCall for service5 min58147f90
Thu 9 Apr 20264:56 pmCall for service21 minb0376cb4
Thu 9 Apr 20266:51 pmCall for service13 mina43b30c9
Fri 10 Apr 202612:02 pmSearch5 min89060a63
Fri 10 Apr 20262:31 pmCall for service14 minc6d0474b
Fri 10 Apr 20265:18 pmCall for service10 min8d33a0ee
Fri 10 Apr 20268:01 pmEvents2 mind3e12828
Fri 10 Apr 20268:22 pmCall for service15 minb87b2866
Fri 10 Apr 20269:17 pmEvents15 mine85037d4
Fri 10 Apr 202610:09 pmCall for service6 min86f664d0
Fri 10 Apr 202610:46 pmEvents19 min0e35edaf
Mon 13 Apr 20269:30 amCall for service2 min4d971762
Mon 13 Apr 202611:30 amCall for service4 min0a72cb1f
Mon 13 Apr 202612:37 pmCall for service11 minb2d60415
Tue 14 Apr 20262:37 pmTraining and testing11 minb678a7c1
Wed 15 Apr 20268:51 amEvents17 min88fdeab9
Wed 15 Apr 20269:35 amEvents15 min5687549e
Wed 15 Apr 202611:41 amOther4 mine43bd68a
Wed 15 Apr 20261:00 pmCall for service13 min33dec24b
Wed 15 Apr 20262:53 pmCall for service22 minc20faa35
Wed 15 Apr 20263:51 pmCall for service9 minea5bce0d
Wed 15 Apr 20264:14 pmCall for service18 min09f73bd8
Wed 15 Apr 20264:54 pmCall for service6 min87f60ea9
Wed 15 Apr 20265:27 pmEvents10 min64dd00fb
Wed 15 Apr 20265:40 pmCall for service2 min633ee582
Thu 16 Apr 20269:36 amEvents9 minf99846e4
Thu 16 Apr 202610:00 amCall for service12 min7bf874ef
Thu 16 Apr 202610:50 amEvents13 min7ee9b608
Thu 16 Apr 20264:14 pmTraining and testing4 minc4b2f07a
Fri 17 Apr 20268:45 amTraining and testing46 sb24b148b
Fri 17 Apr 202611:44 amCall for service13 min80dd1058
Fri 17 Apr 20261:21 pmCall for service13 min91671a87
Sat 18 Apr 202612:35 pmCall for service13 min74542b8a
Sat 18 Apr 20261:53 pmCall for service3 min1a4f7516
Sat 18 Apr 20262:28 pmCall for service10 minc3d9ce32
Sat 18 Apr 20263:49 pmEvents14 min651fbf88
Sat 18 Apr 20264:22 pmCall for service5 min012d2cf4
Sat 18 Apr 20264:38 pmCall for service4 min1b9abfb1
Sat 18 Apr 20265:31 pmCall for service10 min4f3e42b1
Sat 18 Apr 20266:41 pmCall for service11 mina9540355
Sat 18 Apr 20267:08 pmCall for service11 minbfe12153
Sat 18 Apr 20268:25 pmEvents13 minc322ea1d
Mon 20 Apr 202612:15 pmTraining and testing38 sbc2bc74f
Mon 20 Apr 202612:31 pmTraining and testing49 s58b86f5f
Mon 20 Apr 20262:51 pmCall for service4 min67fd7824
Mon 20 Apr 20263:36 pmCall for service5 min3eb46d97
Mon 20 Apr 20264:51 pmEvents15 mind83c883c
Mon 20 Apr 20266:59 pmCall for service9 mincc45149a
Mon 20 Apr 20267:21 pmCall for service1 min 05 s7ad04db3
Mon 20 Apr 20268:00 pmCall for service9 mine7ab79fc
Mon 20 Apr 20269:37 pmCall for service9 mineccae686
Mon 20 Apr 20269:56 pmCall for service15 minc7684195
Tue 21 Apr 20264:16 amCall for service13 min5f737896
Tue 21 Apr 20264:48 pmTraining and testing3 mina4949907
Tue 21 Apr 20265:00 pmCall for service11 mine7f03a2a
Tue 21 Apr 20265:58 pmCall for service18 min3fad701c
Tue 21 Apr 20266:47 pmCall for service17 min3abcec6e
Tue 21 Apr 20267:42 pmCall for service16 min805bc0c5
Tue 21 Apr 20268:25 pmTraining and testing6 minca943ef6
Tue 21 Apr 20268:40 pmCall for service7 min59441b8e
Tue 21 Apr 20269:39 pmTraining and testing55 s7484d7d1
Wed 22 Apr 20268:59 amSearch13 minb096b310
Wed 22 Apr 20261:12 pmTraining and testing1 min 40 s06b89162
Wed 22 Apr 20261:14 pmTraining and testing1 min 13 sc352cc02
Wed 22 Apr 20261:18 pmTraining and testing48 s20d25409
Wed 22 Apr 20261:25 pmEvents17 min2dbb617a
Wed 22 Apr 20263:19 pmTraining and testing1 min 10 se0e1a059
Wed 22 Apr 20263:30 pmTraffic and crashes15 min5a569362
Wed 22 Apr 20264:50 pmCall for service11 mina29f3d61
Wed 22 Apr 20265:17 pmCall for service6 minb3eade18
Wed 22 Apr 20265:57 pmTraining and testing1 min 59 s19bb84a0
Wed 22 Apr 20266:32 pmCall for service13 min08f59a56
Wed 22 Apr 20267:15 pmCall for service7 min2872b910
Wed 22 Apr 20268:29 pmCall for service14 minb5de4691
Wed 22 Apr 20269:49 pmCall for service16 mine6b2ebfd
Thu 23 Apr 202610:30 amCall for service9 min526a2e89
Fri 24 Apr 20262:20 amCall for service15 min604cb73a
Fri 24 Apr 202611:00 amTraining and testing9 mine1d4d5ac
Fri 24 Apr 202611:49 amTraining and testing7 min5593b850
Fri 24 Apr 202611:58 amTraining and testing5 min96b1879f
Fri 24 Apr 20266:21 pmTraining and testing58 sa51d60bc
Fri 24 Apr 20266:30 pmTraining and testing11 min121f1c15
Fri 24 Apr 20266:47 pmTraining and testing8 min6c512e17
Fri 24 Apr 20267:20 pmEvents1 min 09 s9ade35e3
Fri 24 Apr 20267:56 pmCall for service13 min02e2377c
Fri 24 Apr 20269:16 pmCall for service12 mine58a9e60
Fri 24 Apr 202610:39 pmEvents18 minbfa4e80b
Sat 25 Apr 20261:03 pmCall for service10 min9e5bf04b
Sat 25 Apr 20262:16 pmEvents9 minfac97028
Sat 25 Apr 20263:21 pmTraining and testing10 min58d1182a
Sat 25 Apr 20264:12 pmCall for service14 min73596b42
Sat 25 Apr 20265:17 pmCall for service11 minc9df0caf
Sat 25 Apr 20265:43 pmCall for service12 minf5627a09
Sat 25 Apr 20266:50 pmCall for service13 min22df6f58
Sat 25 Apr 20267:43 pmEvents8 min857e3c10
Sat 25 Apr 20268:00 pmEvents1 min 23 s9b070257
Sat 25 Apr 20268:14 pmCall for service17 mina7c85c58
Sat 25 Apr 20269:38 pmEvents13 mineb3231b5
Sat 25 Apr 202610:52 pmEvents3 mina1bd5a7f
Sun 26 Apr 202610:37 pmCall for service16 min342a9342
Mon 27 Apr 20261:37 amCall for service57 sb4d2a06e
Mon 27 Apr 20261:38 amTraining and testing6 min6d2ab352
Mon 27 Apr 20263:22 pmCall for service12 mindf44d2fd
Mon 27 Apr 20263:37 pmCall for service8 mina1e0d21a
Mon 27 Apr 20263:58 pmTraining and testing40 s7fdc260d
Mon 27 Apr 20265:19 pmCall for service14 min088469ca
Mon 27 Apr 20267:03 pmCall for service19 minacea3d8b
Mon 27 Apr 20269:04 pmCall for service18 min5d208c76
Tue 28 Apr 20262:37 amCall for service2 min8d8dc56e
Tue 28 Apr 20262:41 amTraining and testing44 sba5e055c
Tue 28 Apr 202610:57 amTraining and testing59 sbf617812
Tue 28 Apr 20262:07 pmCall for service8 mine121f677
Tue 28 Apr 20264:20 pmCall for service15 min29c41856
Tue 28 Apr 20265:16 pmCall for service14 minbc05135f
Tue 28 Apr 20265:52 pmCall for service6 min49d20018
Tue 28 Apr 20266:30 pmTraining and testing8 min06bbd1d1
Tue 28 Apr 20267:12 pmCall for service6 min08b18788
Tue 28 Apr 20268:06 pmCall for service12 mind53bfbf1
Tue 28 Apr 20269:21 pmCall for service10 mina19b08db
Tue 28 Apr 20269:44 pmEvents38 s886b429c
Wed 29 Apr 20262:05 amCall for service12 mina9ab9636
Wed 29 Apr 20264:22 amEvents15 min5ddf3d95
Wed 29 Apr 202611:33 amTraining and testing5 mind4b1c65d
Wed 29 Apr 20263:28 pmEvents6 min9dd43b35
Wed 29 Apr 20265:44 pmCall for service14 minf3ec254f
Wed 29 Apr 20268:02 pmEvents15 mindcc43f91
Wed 29 Apr 20268:43 pmTraining and testing6 min8d1796c2
Wed 29 Apr 20268:55 pmTraining and testing8 minf93343ae
Wed 29 Apr 20269:48 pmEvents13 minc3dac6bf
Wed 29 Apr 202610:15 pmCall for service10 min06332773
Thu 30 Apr 20267:45 amTraining and testing7 minf1471b93
Thu 30 Apr 202610:24 amEvents16 mincb01eb8e
Thu 30 Apr 202611:06 amCall for service10 min14942570
Thu 30 Apr 202611:21 amCall for service4 minffe427bb
Thu 30 Apr 20261:01 pmCall for service4 min1e1a2500
Thu 30 Apr 20261:14 pmEvents7 min4e569f21
Thu 30 Apr 20263:31 pmEvents6 min30309173
Thu 30 Apr 20263:38 pmEvents6 minc2946eee
Thu 30 Apr 20265:02 pmEvents3 min9c1e3341
Thu 30 Apr 20265:14 pmCall for service12 min3b50b5ad
Thu 30 Apr 20266:26 pmCall for service14 minbb56ce8f
Thu 30 Apr 20267:07 pmCall for service6 min0a3818c1
Thu 30 Apr 20268:15 pmCall for service8 min0c20f98c
Thu 30 Apr 202610:02 pmCall for service12 min6e277711

All 167 flights in April 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.

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.
  • Boundary. "Downtown" is a neighborhood polygon from Olmsted County GIS (Neighborhood Associations), licence "NOASSERTION". Boundary licence unconfirmed: the boundary is shown for orientation only.
  • A flight counts for this area when its path crosses the boundary; only the part inside is drawn.

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