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Rochester, Minnesota

East Side, July 2026

A neighborhood page. 57 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in July 2026.

57

drone flights crossed East Side.

57

of them in July 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed East Side 57 times between 1 July 2026 and 31 July 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 July 2026.

57 of the 57 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.
East SideOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

19% 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 57 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service61%
  2. Events25%
  3. Training and testing11%
  4. Search2%
  5. Traffic and crashes2%

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 20261:57 pmCall for service14 min5d3c5312
Wed 1 Jul 20267:08 pmCall for service10 min4a3e2eeb
Wed 1 Jul 20269:25 pmCall for service6 mine8180a0d
Thu 2 Jul 202611:59 amCall for service13 minbd5134f0
Thu 2 Jul 20266:57 pmCall for service19 min35fe8013
Thu 2 Jul 20268:40 pmCall for service19 min4954db21
Fri 3 Jul 202611:54 amCall for service12 min0b92ab55
Fri 3 Jul 20265:08 pmCall for service22 min2af2f8e1
Fri 3 Jul 20269:04 pmEvents21 min62440522
Fri 3 Jul 202610:31 pmCall for service15 minc5f34845
Sun 5 Jul 20261:11 pmTraining and testing8 min16b576b0
Sun 5 Jul 20264:42 pmCall for service9 min2ed9a3f4
Sun 5 Jul 20268:06 pmCall for service9 min595b4149
Mon 6 Jul 20269:44 amTraining and testing2 min99b2b08c
Mon 6 Jul 20269:21 pmCall for service13 min9ddabf85
Tue 7 Jul 20262:03 pmCall for service14 min59d04cb3
Tue 7 Jul 20264:17 pmCall for service6 mineb9d0660
Tue 7 Jul 20266:30 pmSearch11 min963add38
Wed 8 Jul 20261:02 amCall for service12 min8dba1129
Wed 8 Jul 202610:10 amCall for service9 minb4db3eab
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 20265:13 pmEvents21 min1c772bc8
Sat 11 Jul 20267:26 pmCall for service24 min6edb69f9
Sat 11 Jul 20269:33 pmCall for service6 min1415f1b3
Tue 14 Jul 20268:12 amEvents19 min0b413ec3
Tue 14 Jul 20268:58 amEvents1 min 36 sc37b1dc5
Tue 14 Jul 20262:02 pmEvents12 min5c77b82f
Tue 14 Jul 20268:43 pmCall for service14 min0d3ffaee
Tue 14 Jul 202611:47 pmCall for service17 mined71acc9
Wed 15 Jul 20269:22 amEvents13 minbc9b6fc4
Thu 16 Jul 20268:07 amTraining and testing7 min21353453
Thu 16 Jul 202610:22 amCall for service17 minf0df8d91
Fri 17 Jul 20261:26 pmEvents4 min15219409
Fri 17 Jul 20263:03 pmTraining and testing4 min948fed00
Sat 18 Jul 20267:48 pmCall for service12 mina5a2de32
Sat 18 Jul 202610:36 pmCall for service7 min1b4a4582
Sun 19 Jul 202612:09 amCall for service11 mind7da8909
Tue 21 Jul 20263:53 pmEvents15 min8b103c8b
Tue 21 Jul 20267:13 pmCall for service18 min191d2911
Wed 22 Jul 20268:48 amCall for service20 min771687af
Wed 22 Jul 20267:07 pmCall for service5 min70f1f058
Thu 23 Jul 20265:00 pmEvents7 min9a3728c3
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 20269:05 pmCall for service14 min2b5739f2
Fri 24 Jul 202610:11 pmEvents20 mindc430ad3
Fri 24 Jul 202611:22 pmEvents15 minb02819cf
Sat 25 Jul 20261:18 amCall for service16 mineb8473d5
Sat 25 Jul 20263:26 amCall for service5 min6c0c2479
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 202612:00 pmCall for service18 min69b393e6
Fri 31 Jul 20267:56 pmEvents10 min2adc1ec5

All 57 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. "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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