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Rochester, Minnesota

East Side, March 2026

A neighborhood page. 37 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in March 2026.

37

drone flights crossed East Side.

37

of them in March 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed East Side 37 times between 2 March 2026 and 31 March 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 March 2026.

37 of the 37 drawable flights that crossed the area in March 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

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

27% 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 37 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service35%
  2. Events32%
  3. Training and testing27%
  4. Traffic and crashes3%
  5. Search3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, March 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Mon 2 Mar 20262:25 pmCall for service12 minde01b777
Tue 3 Mar 20266:47 pmTraining and testing5 mind13d9cd0
Wed 4 Mar 202610:33 amEvents15 mina21bd218
Wed 4 Mar 202611:23 pmEvents8 min7e4dc9d4
Wed 4 Mar 202611:58 pmEvents11 min12093347
Thu 5 Mar 20261:44 pmEvents9 min2e2f2a5b
Thu 5 Mar 20266:38 pmTraining and testing1 min 33 s8d91470d
Sat 7 Mar 20265:11 pmEvents17 min3e675ab7
Sat 7 Mar 202611:14 pmEvents14 mincc5f448f
Sun 8 Mar 202612:19 amTraining and testing2 min2ae5415e
Tue 10 Mar 20261:56 pmCall for service10 mine0d1bf28
Tue 17 Mar 202610:28 amTraining and testing10 minc4913972
Tue 17 Mar 202612:01 pmTraining and testing2 minec40c121
Tue 17 Mar 20264:08 pmEvents16 min7d0b3186
Tue 17 Mar 20265:02 pmTraining and testing7 minbc1a5984
Wed 18 Mar 20267:47 amTraining and testing4 minab379a56
Wed 18 Mar 20267:57 amTraffic and crashes4 min837628ab
Wed 18 Mar 20261:16 pmCall for service16 min70e5f0e0
Wed 18 Mar 20263:46 pmEvents4 min52118556
Thu 19 Mar 20267:44 amTraining and testing6 minbdeeaa56
Thu 19 Mar 202610:26 amCall for service12 min19171a28
Thu 19 Mar 20261:45 pmEvents4 mina8dfafb5
Fri 20 Mar 20268:28 amCall for service19 minfb384894
Fri 20 Mar 202610:18 amTraining and testing10 minde256999
Sat 21 Mar 20261:40 amSearch5 minf8dda13c
Mon 23 Mar 202610:54 amCall for service13 min06b82bcd
Wed 25 Mar 20261:55 pmEvents6 minf55e9879
Wed 25 Mar 20264:21 pmEvents19 mind5eea54d
Fri 27 Mar 20266:06 pmEvents16 minf3e071bf
Fri 27 Mar 202611:10 pmCall for service20 min30a66af0
Mon 30 Mar 20263:36 amCall for service14 minf8e23fec
Mon 30 Mar 20268:08 pmCall for service8 minfddf7458
Mon 30 Mar 202611:27 pmCall for service11 min7e3ac1ae
Tue 31 Mar 202612:59 amCall for service17 min52f337e8
Tue 31 Mar 20264:51 amCall for service13 minb63bf67e
Tue 31 Mar 20262:17 pmTraining and testing6 min8f40a754
Tue 31 Mar 20263:06 pmCall for service13 min8b96bf16

All 37 flights in March 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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