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Rochester, Minnesota

Historic Southwest, September 2025

A neighborhood page. 18 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2025.

18

drone flights crossed Historic Southwest.

18

of them in September 2025.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Historic Southwest 18 times between 12 September 2025 and 30 September 2025, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 September 2025.

18 of the 18 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 2025. 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.
Historic SouthwestOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

4 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 18 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service61%
  2. Training and testing28%
  3. Events6%
  4. Other6%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2025

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 12 Sep 20251:32 pmTraining and testing9 minccbd0d1a
Thu 18 Sep 20255:28 pmEvents21 min940e1e9a
Fri 19 Sep 20259:10 amCall for service17 min9b4f1bc5
Fri 19 Sep 20251:41 pmCall for service12 min4fb392ce
Fri 19 Sep 20255:33 pmCall for service17 min3ec535bf
Sun 21 Sep 202512:29 amCall for service19 min48503dbf
Sun 21 Sep 20251:25 amCall for service12 min712a10b3
Mon 22 Sep 20252:38 pmTraining and testing16 min4c8c87a2
Wed 24 Sep 20252:58 pmTraining and testing9 min846953f3
Wed 24 Sep 20253:19 pmTraining and testing7 min48213b33
Wed 24 Sep 20254:55 pmCall for service13 min9e24f8bf
Wed 24 Sep 20256:46 pmCall for service14 mina41da560
Wed 24 Sep 202510:50 pmCall for service4 minf5b86d24
Fri 26 Sep 202512:40 pmTraining and testing19 min8e9b3bd1
Sat 27 Sep 20252:58 pmCall for service12 min625c5651
Sat 27 Sep 20254:13 pmCall for service14 min942adccc
Tue 30 Sep 202510:13 amCall for service11 min03a62c85
Tue 30 Sep 20252:44 pmOther6 min11510ed6

All 18 flights in September 2025. 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. "Historic Southwest" 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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