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Rochester, Minnesota

East Side, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 51 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

51

drone flights crossed East Side.

51

of them in September 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed East Side 51 times between 1 September 2026 and 30 September 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 September 2026.

51 of the 51 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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

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

16% 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 51 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service61%
  2. Events20%
  3. Search8%
  4. Training and testing6%
  5. Other4%
  6. Traffic and crashes2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 1 Sep 20266:15 pmCall for service14 min9d5f2e78
Tue 1 Sep 20266:36 pmCall for service10 min09bf9ca7
Tue 1 Sep 20268:20 pmCall for service14 min912e5001
Tue 1 Sep 20269:04 pmCall for service12 min02f54b77
Wed 2 Sep 202611:48 amCall for service12 min77a1a6ba
Wed 2 Sep 20261:41 pmOther11 min7964a226
Wed 2 Sep 20265:33 pmCall for service9 minb66ab59f
Wed 2 Sep 20265:55 pmEvents4 min0d987c45
Wed 2 Sep 20266:22 pmCall for service22 minaa3f85ab
Wed 2 Sep 20269:02 pmCall for service14 mind8d11437
Thu 3 Sep 20266:13 pmCall for service16 minbb2e0077
Fri 4 Sep 20261:23 pmEvents16 mineb744774
Fri 4 Sep 20264:19 pmCall for service6 mincbdc03ae
Fri 4 Sep 20266:49 pmEvents11 min6f92c580
Sat 5 Sep 20269:41 pmCall for service9 min18c85c00
Sun 6 Sep 20262:13 amCall for service22 min8a3bf73e
Sun 6 Sep 202610:38 pmCall for service12 min8eca2a47
Mon 7 Sep 20262:50 amEvents10 min5cdc3503
Mon 7 Sep 20269:03 pmEvents16 minb48e6148
Tue 8 Sep 20262:11 pmEvents21 min31346d30
Tue 8 Sep 202610:00 pmCall for service11 min6758592e
Wed 9 Sep 20262:10 pmTraffic and crashes7 min4a6485b5
Wed 9 Sep 20264:48 pmCall for service5 min4c06406c
Thu 10 Sep 20264:48 pmCall for service4 min9612c23b
Thu 10 Sep 20266:28 pmCall for service23 min792dc076
Thu 10 Sep 20269:14 pmCall for service21 mine0b4452a
Thu 10 Sep 202610:18 pmCall for service11 min1d8b7be1
Fri 11 Sep 202612:59 pmEvents7 mind17a312f
Fri 11 Sep 20267:19 pmCall for service23 minba061e32
Sat 12 Sep 20265:53 pmCall for service10 mincc75e0fd
Wed 16 Sep 20262:50 amEvents13 min9a276d00
Wed 16 Sep 202610:04 amTraining and testing18 mincbb79bf6
Wed 16 Sep 20267:11 pmCall for service11 min025d7b37
Thu 17 Sep 20268:54 pmCall for service14 minef9e0c9c
Fri 18 Sep 20265:06 pmTraining and testing6 min7e286f6f
Fri 18 Sep 20266:19 pmEvents1 min 56 s3287321e
Fri 18 Sep 20266:39 pmEvents19 minc082e0a5
Sat 19 Sep 20266:05 pmSearch16 min1a778584
Fri 25 Sep 20264:58 pmSearch23 mine445ef07
Fri 25 Sep 20269:46 pmCall for service12 min117e02e4
Sat 26 Sep 20265:55 pmCall for service10 min268388a0
Sat 26 Sep 20267:31 pmCall for service8 minf930dbef
Sat 26 Sep 20268:24 pmCall for service6 min2f430087
Sat 26 Sep 202610:01 pmCall for service13 min3c1151d8
Tue 29 Sep 20266:00 pmOther5 minfd06d3ab
Tue 29 Sep 20267:58 pmTraining and testing14 min24940242
Tue 29 Sep 20269:53 pmCall for service20 min529225a9
Wed 30 Sep 20267:47 pmCall for service16 mine0575014
Wed 30 Sep 20269:09 pmSearch18 min7573c94c
Wed 30 Sep 20269:29 pmSearch17 mindeab6f07
Wed 30 Sep 202610:22 pmCall for service12 mind7febe39

All 51 flights in September 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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