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Rochester, Minnesota

Downtown, May 2026

A neighborhood page. 275 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

275

drone flights crossed Downtown.

275

of them in May 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Downtown 275 times between 1 May 2026 and 31 May 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 May 2026.

275 of the 275 drawable flights that crossed the area in May 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

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

15% 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 275 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service62%
  2. Events17%
  3. Training and testing13%
  4. Search3%
  5. Other2%
  6. Traffic and crashes1%
  7. Not stated1%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, May 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 1 May 202612:32 amCall for service6 min7499decf
Fri 1 May 202612:49 amCall for service14 min79de7224
Fri 1 May 20261:31 amCall for service14 min4dc0cb32
Fri 1 May 20262:15 amCall for service22 minfc6e2d51
Fri 1 May 20261:27 pmSearch13 min80138254
Fri 1 May 20262:46 pmSearch8 minb13862ba
Fri 1 May 20263:17 pmCall for service20 min29764728
Fri 1 May 20264:05 pmCall for service4 min21d52059
Fri 1 May 20264:57 pmTraining and testing14 min5928fc56
Fri 1 May 20265:14 pmTraining and testing57 s8789196e
Fri 1 May 20265:43 pmOther12 min999fc23a
Fri 1 May 20266:07 pmCall for service8 min7876217b
Fri 1 May 20266:56 pmCall for service11 min9223ac0b
Fri 1 May 20267:25 pmCall for service10 min7b89a3f7
Fri 1 May 20267:53 pmCall for service12 min8bc98c2b
Fri 1 May 20268:42 pmCall for service19 min537515e2
Fri 1 May 202611:08 pmCall for service12 mina6647537
Sat 2 May 20261:16 amCall for service7 mind382594a
Sat 2 May 20261:55 amCall for service1 min 17 s4939dcf9
Sat 2 May 20261:19 pmCall for service8 min148e76cd
Sat 2 May 20262:30 pmTraining and testing58 s7fdeb902
Sat 2 May 20262:35 pmOther10 min3ff551ee
Sat 2 May 20263:57 pmEvents16 min07a5f0d3
Sat 2 May 20265:17 pmCall for service12 minb84ab3ec
Sat 2 May 20265:47 pmCall for service10 mine4fbbb95
Sat 2 May 20266:19 pmSearch11 min4b533664
Sat 2 May 20266:49 pmEvents10 min1b18ba53
Sat 2 May 20267:53 pmCall for service19 min0aaa42fe
Sat 2 May 20268:45 pmEvents15 min93872d72
Sat 2 May 20269:25 pmCall for service5 mind28411b8
Sat 2 May 202610:22 pmCall for service21 minc6b0a6be
Sat 2 May 202611:22 pmCall for service1 min 59 s41caf966
Sun 3 May 20261:51 pmOther6 min59c77e0a
Mon 4 May 202610:50 amCall for service7 minb081302f
Mon 4 May 202611:24 amTraffic and crashes4 min0826aaa4
Tue 5 May 20269:03 amCall for service12 mincff5b05a
Tue 5 May 20262:00 pmCall for service3 minaa8a6241
Tue 5 May 20262:21 pmCall for service16 min26105db3
Tue 5 May 20263:16 pmCall for service17 min98e05283
Tue 5 May 20264:34 pmCall for service11 min6032942e
Tue 5 May 20264:49 pmCall for service9 minaabecc43
Tue 5 May 20266:46 pmCall for service8 minc0797b7e
Tue 5 May 20267:10 pmEvents14 min0278cb9c
Tue 5 May 20267:45 pmCall for service11 min29a8ee80
Tue 5 May 20268:57 pmEvents15 minc55bc2b5
Tue 5 May 20269:43 pmCall for service9 mina5909cef
Wed 6 May 20261:56 pmCall for service14 minaefaed5e
Wed 6 May 20263:41 pmCall for service14 min1bfedf17
Wed 6 May 20264:48 pmCall for service13 min915451e1
Wed 6 May 20266:05 pmCall for service11 min4eb72cf2
Wed 6 May 20266:44 pmCall for service19 minf5b2d308
Wed 6 May 20267:33 pmCall for service18 minef326fa9
Wed 6 May 20268:24 pmCall for service15 min537e8960
Wed 6 May 20269:17 pmTraining and testing1 min 34 s9c29c878
Wed 6 May 20269:25 pmCall for service14 min6cab303d
Wed 6 May 202610:15 pmTraining and testing3 minb420fb9a
Wed 6 May 202610:26 pmEvents14 minc8a0aa29
Thu 7 May 20262:18 amCall for service8 minaf5b90cb
Thu 7 May 202611:44 amCall for service10 mined41e73c
Thu 7 May 202612:30 pmOther11 min2f1ae899
Thu 7 May 20265:25 pmCall for service13 minba5ebd09
Thu 7 May 20266:07 pmCall for service10 min2524ac38
Thu 7 May 20266:25 pmCall for service7 min475ad42d
Thu 7 May 20267:31 pmCall for service12 minbc803c65
Thu 7 May 20267:53 pmEvents12 min8269905a
Thu 7 May 20269:35 pmCall for service15 min3e03a6fd
Fri 8 May 20264:28 amCall for service7 mincb1fc9af
Fri 8 May 20267:45 amTraffic and crashes10 min944ccebd
Fri 8 May 20268:16 amCall for service11 min6c307827
Fri 8 May 20261:10 pmTraining and testing16 min5d8094c0
Fri 8 May 20262:21 pmTraining and testing9 min10e7f416
Fri 8 May 20262:52 pmTraining and testing15 min3f47d19c
Fri 8 May 20263:25 pmCall for service8 min421ac465
Fri 8 May 20264:04 pmCall for service19 min3f5c2542
Fri 8 May 20265:01 pmCall for service13 mina029a2c3
Fri 8 May 20266:27 pmCall for service13 min51b96acb
Fri 8 May 20266:56 pmSearch11 min31c719c3
Fri 8 May 20267:58 pmCall for service13 mina94fcd6a
Sun 10 May 20268:05 pmCall for service8 mindb1fad88
Sun 10 May 20268:38 pmCall for service37 saec306fc
Sun 10 May 20268:39 pmCall for service1 min 04 s41375086
Sun 10 May 20268:49 pmCall for service7 mindb14f587
Sun 10 May 20268:59 pmEvents9 min254fc62d
Sun 10 May 202610:49 pmEvents19 min61bd5e43
Mon 11 May 20267:30 amTraining and testing1 min 28 s1d4f86c5
Mon 11 May 202610:12 amEvents13 min34ea0cbb
Mon 11 May 202610:56 amSearch15 minfa3d2826
Mon 11 May 202611:54 amCall for service5 min231dddca
Mon 11 May 202612:18 pmTraining and testing4 min7e57e32d
Mon 11 May 202612:31 pmCall for service4 min25cbed14
Mon 11 May 20261:20 pmTraining and testing1 min 13 s7cfa871d
Mon 11 May 20261:38 pmTraining and testing6 min6271760b
Mon 11 May 20262:14 pmTraining and testing6 minb7cef0a3
Mon 11 May 20263:09 pmTraining and testing59 s0ddde672
Mon 11 May 20263:17 pmCall for service11 min53fc2171
Mon 11 May 20263:48 pmTraining and testing2 mindb84f611
Mon 11 May 20264:43 pmTraining and testing5 minf8f6f7cb
Mon 11 May 20267:13 pmTraining and testing59 s3b86058c
Tue 12 May 20268:11 amCall for service11 min7d151039
Tue 12 May 20269:11 amOther11 min615f743c
Tue 12 May 202610:47 pmTraining and testing1 min 22 s5337a881
Wed 13 May 20268:02 amEvents7 min23dd96ca
Wed 13 May 20268:50 amTraining and testing6 minb387d49a
Wed 13 May 20268:58 amTraining and testing9 min1563f9dc
Wed 13 May 202610:05 amTraining and testing1 min 44 s1ca9481e
Wed 13 May 202610:19 amCall for service9 min13dd516a
Wed 13 May 202610:51 amTraining and testing10 mind78286d6
Wed 13 May 202611:11 amTraining and testing9 minc4e69f8d
Wed 13 May 202611:55 amCall for service17 min9bfeca00
Wed 13 May 20261:28 pmCall for service7 min7633fc20
Wed 13 May 20261:46 pmNot stated8 minc0f23a13
Wed 13 May 20262:10 pmCall for service5 mindac19082
Wed 13 May 20264:18 pmCall for service16 min8027b964
Wed 13 May 20264:53 pmTraining and testing5 minac9fdc67
Wed 13 May 20265:01 pmCall for service11 min5cfaf325
Wed 13 May 20266:47 pmCall for service12 min084400e5
Wed 13 May 20267:07 pmNot stated3 mind2d92363
Wed 13 May 20268:02 pmCall for service17 min017802cc
Wed 13 May 20269:04 pmEvents8 min33901d36
Wed 13 May 20269:33 pmEvents9 min6450e1d7
Thu 14 May 20261:36 pmTraining and testing9 min6f183a7a
Thu 14 May 20262:10 pmEvents10 minc9df51f7
Thu 14 May 20262:40 pmEvents10 minf877f3e2
Thu 14 May 20263:32 pmCall for service15 mind1ed37d2
Thu 14 May 20264:03 pmSearch10 min7df11ef6
Thu 14 May 20265:47 pmCall for service9 min371d9e81
Thu 14 May 20267:47 pmCall for service19 minf1b21a5c
Fri 15 May 202610:49 amEvents15 mineb8878b2
Fri 15 May 202612:31 pmEvents10 min15dbc365
Fri 15 May 20261:17 pmCall for service16 min97bae25a
Fri 15 May 20262:02 pmCall for service10 min23cb7882
Fri 15 May 20265:02 pmCall for service10 min75f4902a
Fri 15 May 20265:40 pmCall for service9 mind43ae8a4
Fri 15 May 202611:16 pmCall for service16 min12c7f725
Sat 16 May 202610:13 amTraining and testing1 min 29 s7115dbf2
Sat 16 May 202612:14 pmCall for service5 min884d1996
Sat 16 May 20261:26 pmEvents11 min47ab0b77
Sat 16 May 20261:56 pmEvents15 mincfa77d26
Sat 16 May 20265:28 pmSearch16 min0de92b7f
Sat 16 May 20266:42 pmEvents7 mind3b7d90f
Sat 16 May 20267:06 pmCall for service11 mine50c920c
Sat 16 May 20267:36 pmCall for service14 min7003c128
Sat 16 May 20268:15 pmCall for service8 min9d43f05f
Sat 16 May 20268:27 pmEvents8 min8102c61f
Sat 16 May 20268:47 pmCall for service6 min740f2dc7
Sat 16 May 20269:20 pmCall for service5 min6ca648a4
Sat 16 May 20269:52 pmCall for service12 min6e750432
Sat 16 May 202610:38 pmCall for service15 min26a88439
Sun 17 May 20267:31 amTraining and testing1 min 23 s3671a731
Sun 17 May 20268:06 amEvents15 minf8739855
Sun 17 May 202610:00 amTraining and testing35 s796c9e43
Sun 17 May 202610:16 amEvents21 min87767ebb
Sun 17 May 202611:30 amEvents16 min84c79237
Sun 17 May 20261:39 pmCall for service13 mincd7b0710
Sun 17 May 20264:04 pmCall for service6 min6d70e7d2
Sun 17 May 20264:55 pmCall for service7 min99ee3151
Sun 17 May 20268:43 pmCall for service10 min35c4aa5e
Tue 19 May 20269:19 amCall for service15 minac5315b9
Tue 19 May 20269:54 amCall for service9 min6671456c
Tue 19 May 202612:14 pmCall for service10 min02781f91
Tue 19 May 202612:40 pmCall for service6 min759de9d2
Tue 19 May 20261:49 pmCall for service7 min9b589eef
Tue 19 May 20261:59 pmTraining and testing2 min0801ee3c
Tue 19 May 20263:02 pmCall for service15 min43065c55
Tue 19 May 20264:34 pmCall for service11 minbc504f81
Wed 20 May 20268:52 amCall for service9 mindc35a633
Wed 20 May 202610:23 amEvents13 min1a971338
Wed 20 May 202610:53 amEvents10 minef82705e
Wed 20 May 20261:44 pmTraining and testing1 min 39 s287d5e5a
Wed 20 May 20262:07 pmCall for service7 min515f1a47
Wed 20 May 20264:27 pmCall for service12 min5b268303
Wed 20 May 20264:59 pmEvents10 min786c9eca
Wed 20 May 20265:23 pmCall for service14 mina3fdc9d5
Thu 21 May 20262:37 pmTraffic and crashes5 minf3d90d0b
Thu 21 May 20264:06 pmCall for service14 min2b6b9a93
Thu 21 May 20264:25 pmEvents4 min0fca164d
Thu 21 May 20265:23 pmCall for service13 min03eebd37
Thu 21 May 20266:39 pmTraining and testing6 minb45c4f57
Thu 21 May 20267:06 pmTraining and testing16 minf033a870
Thu 21 May 20268:01 pmCall for service13 mine5645097
Thu 21 May 20268:26 pmCall for service14 min1b7ecfbc
Thu 21 May 20269:33 pmCall for service13 minfe0494dc
Fri 22 May 202612:50 amCall for service9 minaa2f1e58
Fri 22 May 20268:31 amTraining and testing13 min11529a3d
Fri 22 May 20269:54 amCall for service12 min7cd719ea
Fri 22 May 202610:31 amCall for service7 minb1dea55e
Fri 22 May 202610:44 amCall for service14 min56826816
Fri 22 May 202612:23 pmCall for service14 minf5fc58cf
Fri 22 May 20262:28 pmTraining and testing10 min54cd1319
Fri 22 May 20267:57 pmCall for service12 minf66a8fc2
Fri 22 May 20269:45 pmCall for service16 min37e27ea3
Fri 22 May 202610:30 pmCall for service7 min6c0929f2
Sat 23 May 202612:45 amCall for service11 min28cbdcc3
Sat 23 May 202611:26 amEvents11 minca493fe4
Sat 23 May 20267:23 pmEvents15 minf0d3f8b8
Sat 23 May 202611:09 pmCall for service1 min 03 s674d4a8a
Sat 23 May 202611:20 pmEvents5 min8a6525ad
Sat 23 May 202611:46 pmCall for service5 min05e00df8
Sun 24 May 20261:01 amEvents23 min20cdfbd2
Sun 24 May 202610:40 amEvents12 min64d0c07e
Sun 24 May 20263:26 pmCall for service14 min432cd304
Sun 24 May 20268:00 pmEvents15 min3c31fc71
Mon 25 May 20261:21 amEvents6 min51cd2697
Mon 25 May 20266:20 pmCall for service17 min666a0ca3
Mon 25 May 20267:23 pmEvents14 min3b1b0bd4
Mon 25 May 20268:14 pmCall for service3 minfe72f9e5
Mon 25 May 20268:50 pmCall for service10 mincbb08561
Mon 25 May 20269:38 pmCall for service19 min0e7fe77b
Tue 26 May 202612:51 amCall for service12 min45f72fd9
Tue 26 May 20261:42 amCall for service5 min2ca95f8a
Tue 26 May 20261:53 amCall for service6 min5153a756
Tue 26 May 20267:56 amEvents10 minb5086b51
Tue 26 May 20268:14 amSearch7 mind5564465
Tue 26 May 20269:27 amSearch7 min15cff4f7
Tue 26 May 202610:39 amCall for service21 minf8ed945c
Tue 26 May 202612:24 pmEvents8 min15b192f0
Tue 26 May 20267:16 pmCall for service17 min783beee3
Tue 26 May 20269:10 pmCall for service7 mind98563c1
Tue 26 May 20269:52 pmEvents9 min6259d225
Tue 26 May 202610:13 pmCall for service13 mine2bb56ca
Tue 26 May 202610:41 pmEvents10 min9950b431
Wed 27 May 20266:05 amCall for service6 minc6b48cd0
Wed 27 May 20266:22 amCall for service7 min03908597
Wed 27 May 20267:12 amCall for service11 min5cd5e348
Wed 27 May 20267:29 amCall for service7 min6c1709bb
Wed 27 May 20268:09 amCall for service15 min1dbe70d2
Wed 27 May 20268:30 amCall for service7 min98b0781c
Wed 27 May 20269:46 amCall for service5 mind9d65d77
Wed 27 May 202612:36 pmCall for service9 min4f5f517e
Wed 27 May 20263:06 pmCall for service15 min4dab79ef
Wed 27 May 20264:07 pmCall for service10 min87e242c5
Wed 27 May 20264:23 pmTraffic and crashes9 minb2839133
Wed 27 May 20265:23 pmEvents15 min2dc75c92
Wed 27 May 20267:02 pmCall for service14 mine9fad15d
Wed 27 May 20267:28 pmEvents8 min1e89dc83
Wed 27 May 20268:00 pmCall for service7 mina51fe2a0
Wed 27 May 202610:07 pmCall for service18 mincc3ef923
Thu 28 May 202612:13 pmCall for service13 min1db06565
Thu 28 May 202612:51 pmCall for service4 minbf376496
Thu 28 May 20261:11 pmCall for service8 min8cdb954a
Thu 28 May 20261:47 pmTraining and testing15 min9ba1a4d6
Thu 28 May 20263:05 pmCall for service17 minb6f053a4
Thu 28 May 20263:53 pmCall for service11 minb521ee7d
Thu 28 May 20264:36 pmCall for service9 mind87d2ed7
Thu 28 May 20266:03 pmCall for service11 mina9a0d89e
Thu 28 May 20268:58 pmOther13 min42fe9777
Thu 28 May 20269:49 pmEvents6 min7f10d467
Thu 28 May 202610:23 pmCall for service8 mina9fe85c7
Fri 29 May 20268:46 amCall for service12 mine7802337
Fri 29 May 20267:40 pmEvents14 min821caa8e
Fri 29 May 20268:23 pmCall for service16 min423ad4fc
Fri 29 May 20269:43 pmCall for service10 min574eb839
Fri 29 May 202611:20 pmCall for service10 min28f1429b
Sat 30 May 202612:26 amCall for service5 minfeeb124f
Sat 30 May 202612:40 amCall for service11 minc2f528bb
Sat 30 May 202611:54 amCall for service20 min617e0848
Sat 30 May 20264:20 pmTraining and testing3 minee0f8acd
Sat 30 May 20264:48 pmEvents8 minfebfca08
Sat 30 May 20266:15 pmCall for service6 min65d98bb7
Sat 30 May 20267:48 pmCall for service8 minf5629e95
Sat 30 May 20268:11 pmCall for service9 min83a86ce5
Sat 30 May 202610:07 pmCall for service1 min 32 s8cb40df7
Sat 30 May 202610:11 pmCall for service20 min9c5fa920
Sat 30 May 202610:54 pmCall for service11 min310d55cd
Sun 31 May 202612:38 amCall for service16 min3f880489
Sun 31 May 20261:22 amCall for service17 min082ed616
Sun 31 May 202611:09 amCall for service14 mine4acd3f9
Sun 31 May 202611:42 amCall for service13 min43a2235b
Sun 31 May 20261:28 pmCall for service9 minb33ba0cb
Sun 31 May 20262:15 pmCall for service20 min01005a48
Sun 31 May 20263:34 pmCall for service18 mindb8965f5
Sun 31 May 20264:30 pmEvents15 min534b002d
Sun 31 May 20265:16 pmCall for service8 mindea5f43f
Sun 31 May 20265:59 pmEvents16 min2d4dbeb1
Sun 31 May 20268:32 pmCall for service4 mince3f0a51

All 275 flights in May 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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