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Rochester, Minnesota

Elton Hills, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 39 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

39

drone flights crossed Elton Hills.

39

of them in September 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Elton Hills 39 times between 1 September 2026 and 30 September 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 September 2026.

39 of the 39 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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

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

21% 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 39 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service72%
  2. Other13%
  3. Events8%
  4. Training and testing5%
  5. Search3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 1 Sep 20268:45 amEvents12 min71d86f21
Wed 2 Sep 20268:54 amOther19 minba9f9d40
Wed 2 Sep 20261:50 pmOther19 mine4393e25
Thu 3 Sep 20269:59 pmCall for service22 min42ed9a13
Thu 3 Sep 202610:19 pmCall for service14 min43dfcd58
Thu 3 Sep 202610:59 pmCall for service15 min942facf7
Fri 4 Sep 202611:43 amSearch13 minf06a1238
Fri 4 Sep 20261:20 pmCall for service20 min623900e2
Fri 4 Sep 20262:53 pmOther21 min5d7c9adc
Fri 4 Sep 20265:06 pmCall for service12 min5b0fb451
Fri 4 Sep 20267:40 pmCall for service10 minf0f28c51
Fri 4 Sep 202611:45 pmCall for service20 min0baaf888
Sat 5 Sep 20269:54 pmCall for service13 min3e76ba47
Sun 6 Sep 202612:10 amCall for service12 min8fd9fcfb
Sun 6 Sep 202610:33 pmCall for service8 min1e5588ce
Tue 8 Sep 20263:27 pmCall for service12 min0b6493a0
Wed 9 Sep 20267:44 pmCall for service10 min161ce9f1
Wed 9 Sep 202610:14 pmCall for service12 min14b75aaf
Thu 10 Sep 202610:17 amCall for service20 minc149e621
Fri 11 Sep 20265:41 pmOther12 mindc3a8c4d
Fri 11 Sep 20267:44 pmCall for service16 min766482d6
Sat 12 Sep 20266:10 pmOther7 min7eb48612
Sat 12 Sep 20268:15 pmCall for service15 minfbabe531
Mon 14 Sep 20266:42 pmCall for service10 min2423b95c
Mon 14 Sep 20267:39 pmCall for service12 minf0e3c89f
Mon 14 Sep 20268:13 pmCall for service11 min009445e3
Thu 17 Sep 20268:00 pmEvents10 minecf99e31
Fri 18 Sep 20268:16 pmCall for service11 min31876ac7
Sun 20 Sep 20262:19 amCall for service11 min8bdf6c51
Mon 21 Sep 20263:57 pmCall for service7 min0160a442
Mon 21 Sep 20266:46 pmCall for service14 min209cbb21
Fri 25 Sep 20269:34 pmCall for service11 min3007ec12
Sat 26 Sep 202610:24 pmEvents17 min842c3468
Tue 29 Sep 202612:09 pmCall for service16 min0dce78b4
Tue 29 Sep 20266:25 pmTraining and testing16 mina9ae718b
Tue 29 Sep 20267:01 pmCall for service11 min92d828e4
Wed 30 Sep 20265:57 pmTraining and testing9 min5eaa865f
Wed 30 Sep 20267:31 pmCall for service10 mina1ee0b74
Wed 30 Sep 20268:03 pmCall for service11 minfba6c2ed

All 39 flights in September 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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