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Rochester, Minnesota

Homestead, April 2026

A neighborhood page. 7 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in April 2026.

7

drone flights crossed Homestead.

7

of them in April 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Homestead 7 times between 1 April 2026 and 29 April 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 April 2026.

7 of the 7 drawable flights that crossed the area in April 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.
HomesteadOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

2 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 7 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service71%
  2. Events29%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, April 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 1 Apr 20261:19 pmEvents22 minc0d3de71
Mon 6 Apr 20269:56 amCall for service13 min3f4bd2e7
Tue 7 Apr 20269:59 amCall for service12 minfe72636d
Wed 15 Apr 20269:35 amEvents15 min5687549e
Mon 20 Apr 20269:56 pmCall for service15 minc7684195
Sat 25 Apr 20261:03 pmCall for service10 min9e5bf04b
Wed 29 Apr 20262:05 amCall for service12 mina9ab9636

All 7 flights in April 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. "Homestead" 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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