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Rochester, Minnesota

Elton Hills, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 37 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

37

drone flights crossed Elton Hills.

37

of them in August 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Elton Hills 37 times between 1 August 2026 and 31 August 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 August 2026.

37 of the 37 drawable flights that crossed the area in August 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.

19% 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 37 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service49%
  2. Training and testing22%
  3. Events22%
  4. Search5%
  5. Traffic and crashes3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sat 1 Aug 202612:39 amCall for service16 min066d180c
Sun 2 Aug 20269:36 amCall for service11 min29bf664c
Mon 3 Aug 202612:00 pmTraining and testing19 min8e202c19
Tue 4 Aug 20261:00 amEvents15 min87ef247e
Tue 4 Aug 20261:40 amEvents14 mina3118327
Thu 6 Aug 202611:40 amCall for service13 min5314f49d
Thu 6 Aug 20263:14 pmCall for service22 min31fd62d3
Fri 7 Aug 20261:25 amCall for service16 minf04399a6
Sun 9 Aug 20269:58 pmCall for service22 minf15aa7ac
Mon 10 Aug 20261:11 amCall for service10 minb7e1052c
Mon 10 Aug 20268:25 amEvents6 mine17beb72
Mon 10 Aug 20269:56 amSearch9 minf560b058
Mon 10 Aug 20265:52 pmCall for service15 mina1f0ef05
Wed 12 Aug 20266:45 pmEvents20 min2984fc6a
Thu 13 Aug 202611:10 amEvents9 minea5453fb
Sat 15 Aug 20264:13 pmCall for service7 minb78efb64
Mon 17 Aug 20266:23 pmEvents13 min7c35a079
Tue 18 Aug 20268:05 amSearch9 min6b9d584a
Wed 19 Aug 20269:44 amCall for service9 minafdcbbd0
Wed 19 Aug 20263:53 pmCall for service13 mina792d66b
Thu 20 Aug 20269:59 pmCall for service4 mine6662b66
Fri 21 Aug 20267:13 pmCall for service13 min7dae5440
Sat 22 Aug 20268:27 pmEvents7 min71c955ff
Sat 22 Aug 20269:13 pmEvents3 minfac92222
Sun 23 Aug 202611:42 amCall for service13 min37345092
Sun 23 Aug 20268:55 pmCall for service21 mincaffe110
Mon 24 Aug 202611:48 pmCall for service16 min3b230e66
Tue 25 Aug 20269:30 pmTraining and testing10 min7a901126
Wed 26 Aug 20264:01 pmTraining and testing7 min5f123eb7
Wed 26 Aug 20264:30 pmTraining and testing3 min988837a6
Wed 26 Aug 20264:45 pmTraining and testing8 min557093e5
Wed 26 Aug 20269:16 pmCall for service10 minb4db01f7
Thu 27 Aug 20268:19 amTraffic and crashes16 min25dafa37
Fri 28 Aug 202611:38 pmCall for service5 min663d677b
Sat 29 Aug 202612:50 pmTraining and testing5 minc6c77915
Mon 31 Aug 20268:10 pmTraining and testing6 min4de62f72
Mon 31 Aug 20269:21 pmTraining and testing6 min1e0d1ac7

All 37 flights in August 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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