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Rochester, Minnesota

Historic Southwest, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 47 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

47

drone flights crossed Historic Southwest.

47

of them in September 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Historic Southwest 47 times between 1 September 2026 and 30 September 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 September 2026.

47 of the 47 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.
Historic SouthwestOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

15% 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 47 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service49%
  2. Events34%
  3. Other9%
  4. Training and testing9%

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 202612:08 pmOther9 minb40c013c
Tue 1 Sep 20265:30 pmEvents8 minca45dcd6
Wed 2 Sep 20267:53 amOther17 min9026f74f
Wed 2 Sep 20268:40 amOther16 min09e89544
Wed 2 Sep 20269:41 amOther7 minc099239f
Thu 3 Sep 20268:13 pmEvents9 min7ae3c6ac
Fri 4 Sep 20262:59 pmCall for service14 min9ee7a0df
Fri 4 Sep 20265:27 pmEvents6 min48cb4f4d
Fri 4 Sep 20268:16 pmEvents10 min85dfa813
Fri 4 Sep 20269:35 pmEvents19 min0b087aaa
Sat 5 Sep 20261:03 amCall for service19 mina264ac63
Mon 7 Sep 202612:31 amCall for service15 min71eaf2e7
Tue 8 Sep 20268:56 pmCall for service13 min7a754917
Wed 9 Sep 202610:41 amEvents11 minb4ac6221
Wed 9 Sep 20264:15 pmCall for service19 min694cab28
Thu 10 Sep 202610:32 amCall for service7 min35333368
Thu 10 Sep 20266:00 pmCall for service9 min1a733d02
Thu 10 Sep 20267:34 pmEvents9 minc732ab4a
Fri 11 Sep 20262:23 pmEvents14 min8cc662d3
Sat 12 Sep 20262:31 pmCall for service11 mind90e2367
Sat 12 Sep 20268:01 pmCall for service17 min4a67f31b
Tue 15 Sep 20263:02 amEvents12 mina68b990e
Tue 15 Sep 20266:54 amEvents21 mind9db200e
Tue 15 Sep 20269:03 amEvents8 minf466e4f2
Tue 15 Sep 202611:46 amTraining and testing7 min6d3ed64f
Tue 15 Sep 202612:52 pmTraining and testing6 min99ff63d8
Wed 16 Sep 202610:04 amTraining and testing18 mincbb79bf6
Wed 16 Sep 20266:59 pmCall for service6 min5b1a794e
Wed 16 Sep 20268:02 pmCall for service16 min49b150ab
Wed 16 Sep 20269:01 pmCall for service13 min45a5c82a
Thu 17 Sep 202612:53 pmEvents10 mind741ee51
Thu 17 Sep 20265:03 pmCall for service6 mind427ae34
Fri 18 Sep 20264:35 pmEvents18 min1f2654c2
Mon 21 Sep 20265:04 pmCall for service23 min979f8c49
Tue 22 Sep 20264:41 amCall for service16 min53915b4f
Thu 24 Sep 20269:04 pmCall for service12 minfda0d04e
Fri 25 Sep 202610:12 pmEvents19 min50e9f632
Fri 25 Sep 202611:11 pmCall for service13 minf06d6ad3
Sat 26 Sep 20264:52 pmCall for service15 min5705b15d
Sat 26 Sep 20266:06 pmCall for service9 mina1565693
Sat 26 Sep 20269:20 pmCall for service13 minf03a7b18
Sun 27 Sep 20261:03 amCall for service16 min9af71ba3
Tue 29 Sep 20265:41 pmCall for service9 min0b3f4568
Tue 29 Sep 20266:39 pmCall for service18 min7652ec51
Tue 29 Sep 20267:58 pmTraining and testing14 min24940242
Tue 29 Sep 20268:32 pmEvents12 min05d6e8be
Wed 30 Sep 20265:14 pmEvents19 min0feabd02

All 47 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. "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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