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Rochester, Minnesota

Elton Hills, September 2025

A neighborhood page. 23 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2025.

23

drone flights crossed Elton Hills.

23

of them in September 2025.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Elton Hills 23 times between 12 September 2025 and 29 September 2025, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 September 2025.

23 of the 23 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 2025. 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.
Elton HillsOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

9% 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 23 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Training and testing39%
  2. Call for service26%
  3. Events17%
  4. Other13%
  5. Search4%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2025

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 12 Sep 20258:49 amTraining and testing12 mina17a3918
Fri 12 Sep 202510:25 amTraining and testing14 mina34635b2
Fri 12 Sep 20251:48 pmTraining and testing8 min3d7e347a
Fri 12 Sep 20252:37 pmTraining and testing17 min1df0e157
Tue 16 Sep 20255:49 pmEvents19 mind7f694b0
Thu 18 Sep 20255:57 pmTraining and testing10 minfea74fd2
Sat 20 Sep 202510:26 pmCall for service9 min1b9c80eb
Sun 21 Sep 202512:01 amCall for service12 mina2ddcb21
Mon 22 Sep 202512:25 pmOther9 min71e32a09
Mon 22 Sep 20251:56 pmTraining and testing9 min23108fbc
Mon 22 Sep 20252:39 pmTraining and testing20 mina21d6cd4
Wed 24 Sep 202512:59 pmEvents16 min9498c813
Wed 24 Sep 20254:40 pmEvents13 minb8096c72
Wed 24 Sep 20258:46 pmCall for service6 min4c4d39a3
Wed 24 Sep 20259:51 pmCall for service8 minfa91abae
Thu 25 Sep 202511:43 amEvents8 min059c5a3a
Thu 25 Sep 20256:52 pmSearch14 min83ecf8e0
Thu 25 Sep 20258:16 pmOther8 min057a664c
Thu 25 Sep 20258:53 pmOther14 min1d76f50b
Fri 26 Sep 20253:34 pmTraining and testing10 minee5a15ef
Fri 26 Sep 20255:11 pmCall for service19 min4a176e76
Mon 29 Sep 202511:59 amTraining and testing14 mine20b2931
Mon 29 Sep 20253:08 pmCall for service18 min3017c21b

All 23 flights in September 2025. 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. "Elton Hills" 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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