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Rochester, Minnesota

East Side, April 2026

A neighborhood page. 53 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in April 2026.

53

drone flights crossed East Side.

53

of them in April 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed East Side 53 times between 1 April 2026 and 30 April 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 April 2026.

53 of the 53 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.
East SideOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

13% 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 53 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service60%
  2. Events25%
  3. Training and testing13%
  4. Search2%

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 20261:19 pmEvents22 minc0d3de71
Sat 4 Apr 202611:32 amEvents13 mine1228df7
Sat 4 Apr 202612:03 pmEvents13 minda0a4753
Mon 6 Apr 20269:56 amCall for service13 min3f4bd2e7
Mon 6 Apr 202612:36 pmCall for service12 min0c643bfb
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 202610:18 amCall for service21 min9ca24ca3
Thu 9 Apr 202612:54 pmTraining and testing15 mine1743346
Fri 10 Apr 20265:18 pmCall for service10 min8d33a0ee
Fri 10 Apr 20269:17 pmEvents15 mine85037d4
Fri 10 Apr 202610:09 pmCall for service6 min86f664d0
Mon 13 Apr 20269:30 amCall for service2 min4d971762
Mon 13 Apr 202611:30 amCall for service4 min0a72cb1f
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 20261:00 pmCall for service13 min33dec24b
Thu 16 Apr 20264:14 pmTraining and testing4 minc4b2f07a
Sat 18 Apr 20265:31 pmCall for service10 min4f3e42b1
Sat 18 Apr 20267:08 pmCall for service11 minbfe12153
Mon 20 Apr 20262:51 pmCall for service4 min67fd7824
Mon 20 Apr 20266:59 pmCall for service9 mincc45149a
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 20265:58 pmCall for service18 min3fad701c
Tue 21 Apr 20268:40 pmCall for service7 min59441b8e
Wed 22 Apr 20261:25 pmEvents17 min2dbb617a
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
Fri 24 Apr 202610:39 pmEvents18 minbfa4e80b
Sat 25 Apr 20261:03 pmCall for service10 min9e5bf04b
Sat 25 Apr 20263:21 pmTraining and testing10 min58d1182a
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 20269:38 pmEvents13 mineb3231b5
Mon 27 Apr 20261:38 amTraining and testing6 min6d2ab352
Mon 27 Apr 20263:22 pmCall for service12 mindf44d2fd
Mon 27 Apr 20269:04 pmCall for service18 min5d208c76
Wed 29 Apr 20262:05 amCall for service12 mina9ab9636
Wed 29 Apr 20269:48 pmEvents13 minc3dac6bf
Wed 29 Apr 202610:15 pmCall for service10 min06332773
Thu 30 Apr 20261:01 pmCall for service4 min1e1a2500
Thu 30 Apr 20263:31 pmEvents6 min30309173
Thu 30 Apr 20265:14 pmCall for service12 min3b50b5ad
Thu 30 Apr 202610:02 pmCall for service12 min6e277711

All 53 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. "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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