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Rochester, Minnesota

Elton Hills, December 2025

A neighborhood page. 21 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in December 2025.

21

drone flights crossed Elton Hills.

21

of them in December 2025.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Elton Hills 21 times between 2 December 2025 and 31 December 2025, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 December 2025.

21 of the 21 drawable flights that crossed the area in December 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

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

24% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CST).

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 21 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service86%
  2. Events10%
  3. Training and testing5%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, December 2025

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 2 Dec 20256:07 pmCall for service10 minbe7f94a2
Wed 3 Dec 20255:35 pmCall for service13 minc6161abd
Thu 4 Dec 20258:32 pmCall for service11 min8f90b6a5
Fri 5 Dec 20255:32 pmCall for service8 min4ad6de52
Thu 11 Dec 202510:33 amCall for service13 minfc0c9c6a
Sun 14 Dec 202511:51 pmCall for service14 min59078c2e
Mon 15 Dec 20251:09 amCall for service10 min7119145a
Mon 15 Dec 20252:01 pmTraining and testing9 minb440c9c6
Mon 15 Dec 20258:24 pmCall for service13 min2791627c
Wed 17 Dec 20254:13 pmCall for service17 minb3aa717c
Fri 19 Dec 20258:26 amEvents13 min4591e17a
Mon 22 Dec 20258:54 pmCall for service12 min8c2af819
Mon 22 Dec 202511:40 pmEvents7 minebf88f38
Tue 23 Dec 202510:24 amCall for service11 mine8ee0e19
Tue 23 Dec 202510:15 pmCall for service7 min55a0860c
Tue 23 Dec 202511:47 pmCall for service11 min698e9206
Wed 24 Dec 202511:17 amCall for service14 minc7fe4425
Wed 24 Dec 20251:52 pmCall for service10 min0b2cf141
Wed 31 Dec 20256:42 pmCall for service4 minddfacc75
Wed 31 Dec 20257:52 pmCall for service18 mina9b94a27
Wed 31 Dec 20259:15 pmCall for service9 mindb5fcabe

All 21 flights in December 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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