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Rochester, Minnesota

Elton Hills, March 2026

A neighborhood page. 24 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in March 2026.

24

drone flights crossed Elton Hills.

24

of them in March 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Elton Hills 24 times between 2 March 2026 and 30 March 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 March 2026.

24 of the 24 drawable flights that crossed the area in March 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

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

12% 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 24 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service71%
  2. Events17%
  3. Training and testing12%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, March 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Mon 2 Mar 20269:10 amCall for service10 mina42eb6d6
Wed 4 Mar 202611:25 amEvents9 min9d388e98
Wed 4 Mar 20266:14 pmCall for service18 minf5a7faa3
Wed 4 Mar 20268:34 pmCall for service10 min66c16645
Wed 4 Mar 20269:20 pmEvents5 min22a1f615
Thu 5 Mar 202612:10 amCall for service21 mine84fa779
Thu 5 Mar 202610:24 amCall for service21 min82e36627
Thu 5 Mar 202611:18 amTraining and testing9 min5073ae47
Thu 5 Mar 202611:29 amTraining and testing8 minde1d6f80
Thu 5 Mar 20264:37 pmCall for service10 minba58deaa
Fri 6 Mar 20261:33 amCall for service14 min7393b412
Mon 9 Mar 20268:50 amCall for service16 min4126b682
Mon 9 Mar 20269:27 amCall for service11 min2c45b959
Mon 9 Mar 20262:15 pmCall for service13 min0b98fd6c
Tue 10 Mar 20268:40 amEvents12 mind7fb0421
Thu 12 Mar 20269:56 amCall for service14 minaf93ac5f
Tue 17 Mar 202610:16 amTraining and testing12 mind51016a1
Tue 17 Mar 20264:20 pmCall for service7 min53c3f5ee
Wed 18 Mar 20263:42 pmCall for service7 minac67641d
Thu 19 Mar 20261:06 pmCall for service9 mincaf8373e
Fri 20 Mar 20263:28 pmCall for service10 minf481144d
Tue 24 Mar 20264:08 pmEvents13 min86de983d
Mon 30 Mar 20263:53 amCall for service12 min9f6ca05e
Mon 30 Mar 20263:10 pmCall for service12 min9106e16e

All 24 flights in March 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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