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Rochester, Minnesota

Historic Southwest, May 2026

A neighborhood page. 55 of the 3,631 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

55

drone flights crossed Historic Southwest.

55

of them in May 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Historic Southwest 55 times between 1 May 2026 and 31 May 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 May 2026.

55 of the 55 drawable flights that crossed the area in May 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

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

11% 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 55 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service58%
  2. Events20%
  3. Training and testing9%
  4. Search7%
  5. Other4%
  6. Traffic and crashes2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, May 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 1 May 20261:27 pmSearch13 min80138254
Fri 1 May 20262:46 pmSearch8 minb13862ba
Fri 1 May 20265:43 pmOther12 min999fc23a
Fri 1 May 20267:25 pmCall for service10 min7b89a3f7
Fri 1 May 202611:08 pmCall for service12 mina6647537
Sat 2 May 20265:47 pmCall for service10 mine4fbbb95
Mon 4 May 202610:50 amCall for service7 minb081302f
Tue 5 May 20263:16 pmCall for service17 min98e05283
Tue 5 May 20264:49 pmCall for service9 minaabecc43
Tue 5 May 20267:45 pmCall for service11 min29a8ee80
Wed 6 May 20261:56 pmCall for service14 minaefaed5e
Wed 6 May 20266:05 pmCall for service11 min4eb72cf2
Wed 6 May 20267:33 pmCall for service18 minef326fa9
Wed 6 May 20268:24 pmCall for service15 min537e8960
Thu 7 May 202612:30 pmOther11 min2f1ae899
Thu 7 May 20267:31 pmCall for service12 minbc803c65
Fri 8 May 20262:21 pmTraining and testing9 min10e7f416
Sun 10 May 20268:59 pmEvents9 min254fc62d
Sun 10 May 202610:49 pmEvents19 min61bd5e43
Mon 11 May 202610:56 amSearch15 minfa3d2826
Mon 11 May 20261:38 pmTraining and testing6 min6271760b
Mon 11 May 20264:43 pmTraining and testing5 minf8f6f7cb
Wed 13 May 202611:11 amTraining and testing9 minc4e69f8d
Wed 13 May 20262:10 pmCall for service5 mindac19082
Fri 15 May 202612:31 pmEvents10 min15dbc365
Fri 15 May 20265:40 pmCall for service9 mind43ae8a4
Sat 16 May 202612:14 pmCall for service5 min884d1996
Sat 16 May 20261:26 pmEvents11 min47ab0b77
Sat 16 May 20261:56 pmEvents15 mincfa77d26
Sat 16 May 20265:28 pmSearch16 min0de92b7f
Sat 16 May 20267:06 pmCall for service11 mine50c920c
Sat 16 May 202610:38 pmCall for service15 min26a88439
Sun 17 May 20268:06 amEvents15 minf8739855
Tue 19 May 20263:02 pmCall for service15 min43065c55
Wed 20 May 202610:23 amEvents13 min1a971338
Wed 20 May 20264:27 pmCall for service12 min5b268303
Thu 21 May 20264:06 pmCall for service14 min2b6b9a93
Thu 21 May 20269:33 pmCall for service13 minfe0494dc
Fri 22 May 20262:28 pmTraining and testing10 min54cd1319
Sat 23 May 20267:23 pmEvents15 minf0d3f8b8
Sun 24 May 20268:00 pmEvents15 min3c31fc71
Mon 25 May 20266:20 pmCall for service17 min666a0ca3
Mon 25 May 20268:50 pmCall for service10 mincbb08561
Tue 26 May 20267:56 amEvents10 minb5086b51
Wed 27 May 20264:07 pmCall for service10 min87e242c5
Wed 27 May 20264:23 pmTraffic and crashes9 minb2839133
Wed 27 May 20267:02 pmCall for service14 mine9fad15d
Thu 28 May 20263:05 pmCall for service17 minb6f053a4
Thu 28 May 20269:49 pmEvents6 min7f10d467
Thu 28 May 202610:23 pmCall for service8 mina9fe85c7
Fri 29 May 20268:23 pmCall for service16 min423ad4fc
Sat 30 May 202611:54 amCall for service20 min617e0848
Sat 30 May 20268:11 pmCall for service9 min83a86ce5
Sat 30 May 202610:54 pmCall for service11 min310d55cd
Sun 31 May 202612:38 amCall for service16 min3f880489

All 55 flights in May 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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