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Rochester, Minnesota

East Side, February 2026

A neighborhood page. 47 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in February 2026.

47

drone flights crossed East Side.

47

of them in February 2026.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed East Side 47 times between 1 February 2026 and 28 February 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 February 2026.

47 of the 47 drawable flights that crossed the area in February 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.
East SideOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

28% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CST).

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 47 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service43%
  2. Events26%
  3. Training and testing23%
  4. Search4%
  5. Not stated4%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, February 2026

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sun 1 Feb 20261:25 amEvents14 min179bf5e6
Mon 2 Feb 20261:50 pmCall for service9 mindc6c98e9
Mon 2 Feb 20263:53 pmTraining and testing4 min089d129f
Mon 2 Feb 20264:20 pmTraining and testing9 mine4b0a304
Tue 3 Feb 20269:17 amEvents18 min1a62b2a7
Tue 3 Feb 202610:47 amTraining and testing1 min 53 sf2542ad1
Tue 3 Feb 202612:41 pmEvents13 min331cdef4
Tue 3 Feb 20262:03 pmCall for service14 minf002e830
Tue 3 Feb 20263:46 pmCall for service8 minfb7ecaa8
Fri 6 Feb 20264:37 pmTraining and testing4 mine0ffd04a
Fri 6 Feb 202610:14 pmSearch14 minc491bb35
Fri 6 Feb 202611:50 pmCall for service6 min57c6965b
Sat 7 Feb 202612:37 amCall for service3 minb0564cfe
Sat 7 Feb 202611:37 pmEvents4 min9e166e38
Sun 8 Feb 202612:31 amCall for service11 min9ae2125e
Tue 10 Feb 20265:51 pmEvents8 min9be80eea
Wed 11 Feb 20267:56 amCall for service3 min39ad5d8c
Fri 13 Feb 20268:19 amNot stated6 minbdc4456f
Fri 13 Feb 202610:01 amTraining and testing6 mind1b354ed
Fri 13 Feb 202611:43 amEvents13 min56be2904
Fri 13 Feb 20261:32 pmNot stated6 mine6a699af
Fri 13 Feb 20262:30 pmCall for service9 min4467e1b1
Fri 13 Feb 202610:29 pmCall for service23 min61389a4a
Tue 17 Feb 20263:52 amCall for service7 min71e42b4d
Thu 19 Feb 20269:11 amTraining and testing9 min0db76707
Fri 20 Feb 20265:00 pmTraining and testing6 min6a35dc72
Fri 20 Feb 20266:58 pmEvents18 mined3cdd8a
Sat 21 Feb 20267:58 pmEvents17 min1d26126d
Sat 21 Feb 20268:21 pmEvents18 min35409ea8
Sat 21 Feb 20268:44 pmEvents19 min034752ae
Tue 24 Feb 20267:47 amTraining and testing3 min3f41090d
Tue 24 Feb 20262:02 pmTraining and testing4 min28464bb9
Tue 24 Feb 20267:55 pmCall for service15 min5d81db60
Wed 25 Feb 20261:01 amCall for service8 min70f53b7a
Wed 25 Feb 20262:59 amCall for service11 mind0c8230e
Wed 25 Feb 20262:09 pmEvents4 mine2559020
Wed 25 Feb 20264:18 pmCall for service12 minc748d5a0
Thu 26 Feb 20261:37 pmTraining and testing5 min351ad3c7
Thu 26 Feb 20262:38 pmCall for service11 minbbf91021
Thu 26 Feb 20263:38 pmTraining and testing3 minea544bdc
Thu 26 Feb 20267:39 pmCall for service13 min2deb4689
Thu 26 Feb 20268:55 pmCall for service7 min9e63efbf
Thu 26 Feb 20269:47 pmCall for service11 min79eaf932
Fri 27 Feb 20261:57 amCall for service6 min37bda2dc
Fri 27 Feb 20263:22 amCall for service6 minf2ff4407
Fri 27 Feb 20265:54 pmSearch12 minf29d155d
Sat 28 Feb 20262:11 amEvents11 min3ff489f4

All 47 flights in February 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. "East Side" 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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