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Rochester, Minnesota

Historic Southwest, March 2026

A neighborhood page. 21 of the 3,631 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in March 2026.

21

drone flights crossed Historic Southwest.

21

of them in March 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Historic Southwest 21 times between 2 March 2026 and 30 March 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 March 2026.

21 of the 21 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.
Historic SouthwestOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

14% 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 21 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service86%
  2. Events14%

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 20262:35 amCall for service20 min0ee4623f
Tue 3 Mar 20268:28 pmCall for service14 min61442e2a
Wed 4 Mar 20261:30 pmCall for service12 min5aed9549
Wed 4 Mar 20265:42 pmCall for service13 min48f92f68
Wed 4 Mar 20266:08 pmCall for service4 minda284eeb
Wed 4 Mar 20267:24 pmEvents12 min0dece242
Wed 4 Mar 20269:39 pmEvents16 min655848b8
Thu 5 Mar 20262:19 amEvents18 min2f866386
Thu 5 Mar 20268:41 pmCall for service11 min4d4c387d
Wed 11 Mar 20268:57 pmCall for service10 min28e8a4b7
Tue 17 Mar 20268:33 amCall for service12 min20d520c3
Tue 17 Mar 202612:36 pmCall for service8 min0758904d
Thu 19 Mar 20261:29 pmCall for service10 minedae96d3
Thu 19 Mar 20263:01 pmCall for service11 min53a96f4e
Mon 23 Mar 20263:26 pmCall for service15 min9de17568
Tue 24 Mar 20269:39 amCall for service10 minface7492
Tue 24 Mar 202612:32 pmCall for service15 minccba1871
Thu 26 Mar 20263:28 pmCall for service5 min88803064
Fri 27 Mar 20268:20 amCall for service9 min522c8b7a
Sat 28 Mar 20262:31 amCall for service8 minaf5368b0
Mon 30 Mar 20269:15 pmCall for service9 mina558f2d4

All 21 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. "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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