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Rochester, Minnesota

Elton Hills, February 2026

A neighborhood page. 35 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in February 2026.

35

drone flights crossed Elton Hills.

35

of them in February 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Elton Hills 35 times between 2 February 2026 and 28 February 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 February 2026.

35 of the 35 drawable flights that crossed the area in February 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.
Elton HillsOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

20% 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 35 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service54%
  2. Events34%
  3. Training and testing9%
  4. Not stated3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, February 2026

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Mon 2 Feb 202610:54 amEvents14 min13fec01d
Tue 3 Feb 20261:23 pmCall for service13 min7aa45ea5
Wed 4 Feb 20268:48 amCall for service12 min349346d2
Wed 4 Feb 20262:13 pmCall for service13 min83f9cfb3
Thu 5 Feb 202610:52 amEvents12 minb50f39d1
Fri 6 Feb 202610:51 pmCall for service9 min2903d567
Sat 7 Feb 202611:22 pmCall for service8 min2ffb3d4d
Mon 9 Feb 20265:07 pmCall for service6 min02b25735
Wed 11 Feb 20268:00 amCall for service12 min6ee36cc7
Fri 13 Feb 20268:31 amNot stated6 min7e7b607e
Fri 13 Feb 202610:42 amTraining and testing8 min633e9689
Fri 13 Feb 20264:04 pmCall for service7 min4a079275
Fri 13 Feb 20264:57 pmCall for service15 min3dfc24b7
Fri 13 Feb 20267:04 pmEvents12 mind2fe8cb5
Fri 13 Feb 20269:32 pmCall for service15 minb33c5775
Sun 15 Feb 202610:14 pmEvents13 mina400a343
Sun 15 Feb 202611:09 pmCall for service16 minef2bacff
Tue 17 Feb 20268:28 amCall for service18 min22297024
Thu 19 Feb 202610:12 amEvents12 minbb328c9f
Fri 20 Feb 20262:05 pmCall for service20 min6bfec550
Fri 20 Feb 20267:18 pmEvents13 minad2e7d43
Sat 21 Feb 202611:15 pmEvents10 min1eaeba1f
Mon 23 Feb 20268:22 pmEvents9 min2cae2188
Mon 23 Feb 202610:13 pmCall for service7 min2d8764b8
Tue 24 Feb 20269:55 pmCall for service13 min33c1104f
Tue 24 Feb 202610:10 pmCall for service6 min563278c7
Wed 25 Feb 20261:19 pmEvents10 min8c09d70f
Wed 25 Feb 20262:24 pmTraining and testing6 minf49bd38d
Wed 25 Feb 20262:52 pmTraining and testing6 min3df1afc4
Wed 25 Feb 20265:14 pmCall for service15 min86ebab1c
Wed 25 Feb 20269:39 pmEvents10 minb5cc530a
Fri 27 Feb 202612:55 pmCall for service21 min26f55f17
Fri 27 Feb 20266:31 pmCall for service10 min23f93153
Sat 28 Feb 20266:52 pmEvents6 min113b72b5
Sat 28 Feb 20269:27 pmEvents12 minf343503c

All 35 flights in February 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. "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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