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Rochester, Minnesota

East Side, May 2026

A neighborhood page. 80 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

80

drone flights crossed East Side.

80

of them in May 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed East Side 80 times between 1 May 2026 and 31 May 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 May 2026.

80 of the 80 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.
East SideOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

18% 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 80 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service64%
  2. Events21%
  3. Training and testing8%
  4. Search4%
  5. Traffic and crashes2%
  6. 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 20264:57 pmTraining and testing14 min5928fc56
Fri 1 May 20268:42 pmCall for service19 min537515e2
Sat 2 May 20261:16 amCall for service7 mind382594a
Sat 2 May 20263:57 pmEvents16 min07a5f0d3
Sat 2 May 20265:17 pmCall for service12 minb84ab3ec
Sat 2 May 20268:45 pmEvents15 min93872d72
Sat 2 May 202610:22 pmCall for service21 minc6b0a6be
Mon 4 May 202611:24 amTraffic and crashes4 min0826aaa4
Tue 5 May 20262:00 pmCall for service3 minaa8a6241
Tue 5 May 20268:57 pmEvents15 minc55bc2b5
Tue 5 May 20269:43 pmCall for service9 mina5909cef
Thu 7 May 20265:25 pmCall for service13 minba5ebd09
Thu 7 May 20267:53 pmEvents12 min8269905a
Fri 8 May 20264:28 amCall for service7 mincb1fc9af
Fri 8 May 20267:45 amTraffic and crashes10 min944ccebd
Fri 8 May 20266:56 pmSearch11 min31c719c3
Sun 10 May 20268:05 pmCall for service8 mindb1fad88
Sun 10 May 20268:49 pmCall for service7 mindb14f587
Mon 11 May 202610:12 amEvents13 min34ea0cbb
Mon 11 May 202611:54 amCall for service5 min231dddca
Wed 13 May 20268:58 amTraining and testing9 min1563f9dc
Wed 13 May 202610:51 amTraining and testing10 mind78286d6
Wed 13 May 202611:55 amCall for service17 min9bfeca00
Wed 13 May 20261:46 pmNot stated8 minc0f23a13
Wed 13 May 20265:01 pmCall for service11 min5cfaf325
Wed 13 May 20266:47 pmCall for service12 min084400e5
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
Fri 15 May 202610:49 amEvents15 mineb8878b2
Fri 15 May 20262:02 pmCall for service10 min23cb7882
Fri 15 May 202611:16 pmCall for service16 min12c7f725
Sat 16 May 20265:28 pmSearch16 min0de92b7f
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 202612:14 pmCall for service10 min02781f91
Tue 19 May 20261:49 pmCall for service7 min9b589eef
Tue 19 May 20264:34 pmCall for service11 minbc504f81
Wed 20 May 20265:23 pmCall for service14 mina3fdc9d5
Thu 21 May 20268:01 pmCall for service13 mine5645097
Fri 22 May 20268:31 amTraining and testing13 min11529a3d
Fri 22 May 202610:44 amCall for service14 min56826816
Fri 22 May 20269:45 pmCall for service16 min37e27ea3
Sat 23 May 202611:46 pmCall for service5 min05e00df8
Mon 25 May 20261:21 amEvents6 min51cd2697
Mon 25 May 20267:23 pmEvents14 min3b1b0bd4
Tue 26 May 20261:53 amCall for service6 min5153a756
Tue 26 May 202610:39 amCall for service21 minf8ed945c
Tue 26 May 20267:16 pmCall for service17 min783beee3
Tue 26 May 20269:52 pmEvents9 min6259d225
Tue 26 May 202610:41 pmEvents10 min9950b431
Wed 27 May 20266:22 amCall for service7 min03908597
Wed 27 May 20268:09 amCall for service15 min1dbe70d2
Wed 27 May 20263:06 pmCall for service15 min4dab79ef
Wed 27 May 20265:23 pmEvents15 min2dc75c92
Wed 27 May 202610:07 pmCall for service18 mincc3ef923
Thu 28 May 20261:11 pmCall for service8 min8cdb954a
Thu 28 May 20261:47 pmTraining and testing15 min9ba1a4d6
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
Fri 29 May 20269:43 pmCall for service10 min574eb839
Sat 30 May 202612:26 amCall for service5 minfeeb124f
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 202610:11 pmCall for service20 min9c5fa920
Sun 31 May 20261:22 amCall for service17 min082ed616
Sun 31 May 20261:28 pmCall for service9 minb33ba0cb
Sun 31 May 20263:34 pmCall for service18 mindb8965f5
Sun 31 May 20264:30 pmEvents15 min534b002d

All 80 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. "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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