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Rochester, Minnesota

Downtown, July 2026

A neighborhood page. 172 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in July 2026.

172

drone flights crossed Downtown.

172

of them in July 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Downtown 172 times between 1 July 2026 and 31 July 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 July 2026.

172 of the 172 drawable flights that crossed the area in July 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

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

20% 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 172 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service60%
  2. Events24%
  3. Training and testing10%
  4. Search2%
  5. Traffic and crashes2%
  6. Not stated1%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, July 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 1 Jul 202611:08 amEvents6 minfc908198
Wed 1 Jul 20261:57 pmCall for service14 min5d3c5312
Wed 1 Jul 20266:58 pmCall for service9 mine681926d
Wed 1 Jul 20267:08 pmCall for service10 min4a3e2eeb
Wed 1 Jul 20268:21 pmEvents10 min01d0e590
Wed 1 Jul 20268:39 pmCall for service16 min7a564a84
Wed 1 Jul 20269:25 pmCall for service6 mine8180a0d
Wed 1 Jul 20269:42 pmCall for service7 mindeacd66d
Thu 2 Jul 202611:59 amCall for service13 minbd5134f0
Thu 2 Jul 20263:16 pmEvents8 min2c0744fc
Thu 2 Jul 20263:26 pmCall for service11 min3b89aa0c
Thu 2 Jul 20264:36 pmCall for service5 minec2690db
Thu 2 Jul 20266:57 pmCall for service19 min35fe8013
Thu 2 Jul 20268:40 pmCall for service19 min4954db21
Thu 2 Jul 20269:39 pmCall for service8 min8ae07ef1
Thu 2 Jul 202610:58 pmCall for service15 min74ea83c0
Thu 2 Jul 202611:23 pmEvents11 min819381cd
Fri 3 Jul 20269:50 amEvents5 min076c36e3
Fri 3 Jul 202610:22 amEvents4 min1806d55b
Fri 3 Jul 202611:54 amCall for service12 min0b92ab55
Fri 3 Jul 202612:50 pmEvents5 min14489a6f
Fri 3 Jul 20263:06 pmCall for service13 mine0e10448
Fri 3 Jul 20265:08 pmCall for service22 min2af2f8e1
Fri 3 Jul 20266:36 pmCall for service15 min206627a8
Fri 3 Jul 20267:00 pmCall for service7 minf96f028b
Fri 3 Jul 20268:00 pmCall for service8 minf0e091f2
Fri 3 Jul 20268:23 pmCall for service8 min44ec0e4a
Fri 3 Jul 20269:04 pmEvents21 min62440522
Fri 3 Jul 202610:31 pmCall for service15 minc5f34845
Sat 4 Jul 20264:37 amTraining and testing43 sa0f81fa9
Sat 4 Jul 20266:47 pmEvents10 min4490353f
Sat 4 Jul 20269:06 pmEvents10 min7ad02b8c
Sat 4 Jul 20269:23 pmEvents10 mina6775c3d
Sat 4 Jul 20269:58 pmEvents2 min749c1661
Sat 4 Jul 202611:48 pmCall for service16 min98720a4e
Sun 5 Jul 202612:45 pmTraining and testing6 minde29c7d7
Sun 5 Jul 20261:11 pmTraining and testing8 min16b576b0
Sun 5 Jul 20263:18 pmCall for service9 mine5ef346c
Sun 5 Jul 20264:20 pmCall for service11 min4c64e872
Sun 5 Jul 20264:42 pmCall for service9 min2ed9a3f4
Sun 5 Jul 20265:17 pmSearch17 mineff4d3bc
Sun 5 Jul 20268:06 pmCall for service9 min595b4149
Sun 5 Jul 20268:23 pmNot stated9 minf5738365
Sun 5 Jul 20269:07 pmCall for service10 min6da3d939
Mon 6 Jul 20269:44 amTraining and testing2 min99b2b08c
Mon 6 Jul 202611:56 amCall for service12 min9cb3a856
Mon 6 Jul 202612:18 pmTraining and testing4 min2f79aaa8
Mon 6 Jul 20262:54 pmCall for service9 min76d7b7ec
Mon 6 Jul 20263:28 pmCall for service9 min2ec7a4b1
Mon 6 Jul 20265:43 pmCall for service11 min2733ca16
Mon 6 Jul 20266:44 pmCall for service8 min96796cec
Mon 6 Jul 20267:22 pmCall for service11 minc63f77a4
Mon 6 Jul 20268:14 pmCall for service6 minf6687c47
Mon 6 Jul 20269:21 pmCall for service13 min9ddabf85
Tue 7 Jul 20263:38 amCall for service12 min418481e1
Tue 7 Jul 20261:16 pmCall for service11 min1c4b1d94
Tue 7 Jul 20262:03 pmCall for service14 min59d04cb3
Tue 7 Jul 20264:17 pmCall for service6 mineb9d0660
Tue 7 Jul 20265:20 pmCall for service8 min3d6dcf3d
Tue 7 Jul 20266:30 pmSearch11 min963add38
Tue 7 Jul 20268:32 pmCall for service6 min6f5a3e6d
Tue 7 Jul 20268:42 pmCall for service9 min370e5fe0
Wed 8 Jul 20261:02 amCall for service12 min8dba1129
Wed 8 Jul 202610:10 amCall for service9 minb4db3eab
Wed 8 Jul 202610:57 amCall for service8 min310fd17a
Wed 8 Jul 202612:37 pmCall for service11 min1c8a2918
Thu 9 Jul 202610:43 amTraining and testing12 min1ab37aa3
Thu 9 Jul 202612:07 pmTraining and testing4 minbbcda044
Fri 10 Jul 202610:32 pmCall for service15 min0b5261fb
Sat 11 Jul 20261:06 amCall for service12 min06ed5805
Sat 11 Jul 20265:13 pmEvents21 min1c772bc8
Sat 11 Jul 20267:26 pmCall for service24 min6edb69f9
Sat 11 Jul 20269:33 pmCall for service6 min1415f1b3
Sat 11 Jul 202610:03 pmCall for service6 min21a6a2c7
Sat 11 Jul 202610:28 pmCall for service9 mind9717313
Sun 12 Jul 20261:04 amCall for service17 min25592eb0
Mon 13 Jul 202610:30 pmCall for service6 mine96e2c10
Tue 14 Jul 20268:12 amEvents19 min0b413ec3
Tue 14 Jul 20268:58 amEvents1 min 36 sc37b1dc5
Tue 14 Jul 202610:00 amCall for service3 min752838e0
Tue 14 Jul 202611:17 amEvents6 min9569e132
Tue 14 Jul 202611:31 amEvents9 mina11a49e4
Tue 14 Jul 202612:03 pmCall for service8 min0f1e3cdc
Tue 14 Jul 20262:02 pmEvents12 min5c77b82f
Tue 14 Jul 20262:35 pmTraining and testing5 min61644f02
Tue 14 Jul 20262:55 pmTraining and testing7 minc611a56e
Tue 14 Jul 20264:10 pmTraffic and crashes10 min43345096
Tue 14 Jul 20268:26 pmCall for service4 mina519660c
Tue 14 Jul 20268:43 pmCall for service14 min0d3ffaee
Tue 14 Jul 202610:16 pmCall for service17 minf71a9da5
Tue 14 Jul 202611:13 pmCall for service2 min63f96435
Tue 14 Jul 202611:17 pmCall for service13 minb29b5cb5
Tue 14 Jul 202611:47 pmCall for service17 mined71acc9
Wed 15 Jul 20268:56 amCall for service11 min3e4d045f
Wed 15 Jul 20269:22 amEvents13 minbc9b6fc4
Wed 15 Jul 20262:12 pmEvents7 minc4488e16
Wed 15 Jul 20263:33 pmCall for service19 min2d8448c2
Wed 15 Jul 20264:25 pmTraffic and crashes14 mina88d8991
Wed 15 Jul 20266:02 pmSearch8 mind3cca0eb
Thu 16 Jul 20268:07 amTraining and testing7 min21353453
Thu 16 Jul 202610:22 amCall for service17 minf0df8d91
Fri 17 Jul 20268:14 amCall for service15 min2dd17090
Fri 17 Jul 20268:50 amEvents6 min31bdf491
Fri 17 Jul 20269:29 amEvents13 min1aaa67ed
Fri 17 Jul 20261:26 pmEvents4 min15219409
Fri 17 Jul 20263:03 pmTraining and testing4 min948fed00
Fri 17 Jul 20263:25 pmTraining and testing7 min81a8104f
Fri 17 Jul 20263:57 pmTraining and testing1 min 02 s0908f980
Fri 17 Jul 20264:13 pmTraining and testing1 min 45 s1a66b1ce
Fri 17 Jul 20265:07 pmEvents10 mine6df3246
Fri 17 Jul 20268:35 pmCall for service19 minad72db6f
Fri 17 Jul 20269:53 pmCall for service11 min69aecb5f
Fri 17 Jul 202610:43 pmCall for service16 min5e95d579
Sat 18 Jul 202612:36 amEvents9 minc7d081b7
Sat 18 Jul 20267:31 pmCall for service6 minbe7c709b
Sat 18 Jul 20267:48 pmCall for service12 mina5a2de32
Sat 18 Jul 20269:28 pmCall for service12 min383b15b4
Sat 18 Jul 202610:36 pmCall for service7 min1b4a4582
Sat 18 Jul 202611:27 pmEvents9 min394271f1
Sun 19 Jul 202612:09 amCall for service11 mind7da8909
Sun 19 Jul 202612:31 amCall for service9 mindae868f7
Tue 21 Jul 20262:41 pmEvents23 min98618cc3
Tue 21 Jul 20263:31 pmEvents8 min7297cef5
Tue 21 Jul 20263:49 pmEvents8 mincaf9c7be
Tue 21 Jul 20264:53 pmCall for service4 min22d6ec0e
Tue 21 Jul 20267:13 pmCall for service18 min191d2911
Tue 21 Jul 20269:58 pmCall for service13 minc3103056
Tue 21 Jul 202610:28 pmCall for service6 minac0a98df
Wed 22 Jul 20268:48 amCall for service20 min771687af
Wed 22 Jul 20269:23 amCall for service43 sfa137b76
Wed 22 Jul 202610:04 amCall for service9 minb09668cf
Wed 22 Jul 20263:21 pmCall for service11 min1f452849
Wed 22 Jul 20264:46 pmEvents13 min7bfb1c1a
Wed 22 Jul 20267:07 pmCall for service5 min70f1f058
Wed 22 Jul 20268:05 pmCall for service15 min635479aa
Wed 22 Jul 202610:45 pmCall for service21 min825738c7
Wed 22 Jul 202611:27 pmCall for service12 min5ab8099f
Thu 23 Jul 20264:20 pmCall for service11 min0ee01a6f
Thu 23 Jul 20265:00 pmEvents7 min9a3728c3
Thu 23 Jul 202611:48 pmTraffic and crashes22 min5328800d
Fri 24 Jul 202612:47 pmTraining and testing1 min 28 s7b78eb56
Fri 24 Jul 20261:51 pmEvents15 minad9da935
Fri 24 Jul 20262:47 pmCall for service5 minb55c653e
Fri 24 Jul 20262:54 pmEvents10 min35a57fbb
Fri 24 Jul 20263:23 pmTraffic and crashes10 min49e8f37c
Fri 24 Jul 20266:28 pmCall for service11 min0c4b28a5
Fri 24 Jul 20269:05 pmCall for service14 min2b5739f2
Fri 24 Jul 202610:11 pmEvents20 mindc430ad3
Fri 24 Jul 202611:22 pmEvents15 minb02819cf
Sat 25 Jul 202612:14 amEvents4 min9052d677
Sat 25 Jul 20261:18 amCall for service16 mineb8473d5
Sat 25 Jul 20263:26 amCall for service5 min6c0c2479
Sat 25 Jul 202612:23 pmSearch16 minac6b5c1c
Sun 26 Jul 20263:40 amEvents5 min409787f8
Sun 26 Jul 20268:10 pmTraining and testing2 mindfbb8bc0
Mon 27 Jul 20265:59 pmEvents6 minee9cea1f
Mon 27 Jul 20268:43 pmCall for service14 min25a206f8
Mon 27 Jul 202610:10 pmCall for service15 min9fd4d4e2
Tue 28 Jul 20268:49 amTraining and testing6 min04b6f96a
Tue 28 Jul 20269:12 amTraining and testing7 min4eacc0fc
Tue 28 Jul 20269:28 amCall for service11 minc5a213d2
Tue 28 Jul 202612:00 pmCall for service18 min69b393e6
Tue 28 Jul 202612:38 pmCall for service4 min9b510c35
Tue 28 Jul 20267:09 pmCall for service5 min1bb82fb2
Tue 28 Jul 20267:29 pmCall for service11 min9006ac17
Tue 28 Jul 20268:00 pmCall for service6 mine0adc427
Wed 29 Jul 20268:13 pmCall for service10 min98a94ea7
Fri 31 Jul 20267:56 pmEvents10 min2adc1ec5
Fri 31 Jul 20268:36 pmCall for service5 minf7dca734
Fri 31 Jul 20268:55 pmEvents2 min6bd36db3
Fri 31 Jul 20269:16 pmCall for service13 minc7f5a66a
Fri 31 Jul 202611:22 pmEvents12 min3b48866d

All 172 flights in July 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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