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Rochester, Minnesota

Elton Hills, April 2026

A neighborhood page. 42 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in April 2026.

42

drone flights crossed Elton Hills.

42

of them in April 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Elton Hills 42 times between 1 April 2026 and 30 April 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 April 2026.

42 of the 42 drawable flights that crossed the area in April 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

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

17% 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 42 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service50%
  2. Events24%
  3. Search12%
  4. Training and testing7%
  5. Not stated2%
  6. Other2%
  7. Traffic and crashes2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, April 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 1 Apr 202610:54 amCall for service12 min0f22bbd9
Wed 1 Apr 20261:53 pmCall for service8 min76d5c947
Sat 4 Apr 20261:26 pmCall for service13 min82082cc5
Tue 7 Apr 20262:19 pmNot stated14 min037d2fdb
Tue 7 Apr 20265:00 pmSearch11 min6c00054a
Thu 9 Apr 20269:07 amCall for service5 mine7620bb7
Thu 9 Apr 20263:15 pmOther7 min407472f7
Thu 9 Apr 20264:01 pmTraining and testing8 min21daee6b
Fri 10 Apr 20268:37 pmCall for service13 min25ba1bb0
Wed 15 Apr 20269:25 amCall for service12 min15646095
Thu 16 Apr 20268:02 amCall for service15 mindb9d0a96
Thu 16 Apr 20268:34 amTraffic and crashes7 min3713545e
Thu 16 Apr 202610:38 amEvents9 minf2aecb27
Fri 17 Apr 20267:39 amCall for service15 mind015394e
Sat 18 Apr 20264:00 pmTraining and testing5 mine45a549b
Sat 18 Apr 20264:42 pmCall for service12 min93c15f55
Sat 18 Apr 20268:29 pmCall for service16 min0e148b52
Sat 18 Apr 202611:41 pmCall for service10 mine00e6219
Mon 20 Apr 20263:46 pmSearch13 minb5cd80b7
Mon 20 Apr 20264:10 pmSearch5 min42d078b4
Mon 20 Apr 20266:06 pmEvents10 min6da3a7b1
Tue 21 Apr 20268:08 pmCall for service11 mince2b22d1
Tue 21 Apr 20269:54 pmCall for service8 min557b6032
Wed 22 Apr 20268:55 pmCall for service11 mince581ce7
Fri 24 Apr 20269:06 pmCall for service8 min0211b195
Fri 24 Apr 202610:07 pmEvents15 min62e27958
Sat 25 Apr 20261:22 pmEvents13 min55661ae3
Sat 25 Apr 20268:49 pmEvents18 minafc15436
Sat 25 Apr 202610:16 pmEvents14 min5e4b203a
Sat 25 Apr 202610:58 pmEvents8 min75608f3a
Sun 26 Apr 20261:58 amEvents9 min77061b83
Mon 27 Apr 20263:40 pmCall for service12 min02ba54e8
Mon 27 Apr 20266:40 pmCall for service12 min87aff9d1
Tue 28 Apr 20262:36 pmCall for service4 min09a15935
Tue 28 Apr 20263:59 pmTraining and testing4 min40f64078
Tue 28 Apr 20264:39 pmSearch15 mina2292fdb
Tue 28 Apr 202610:19 pmCall for service9 min89bbceb4
Wed 29 Apr 20262:58 pmEvents6 min6fc22975
Wed 29 Apr 20266:20 pmSearch15 minf8d92ae0
Thu 30 Apr 20262:42 pmEvents15 mind5757c3e
Thu 30 Apr 20265:56 pmCall for service12 min5c1760bc
Thu 30 Apr 202610:51 pmCall for service11 min709e6951

All 42 flights in April 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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