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Rochester, Minnesota

Parkway, May 2026

A neighborhood page. 18 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

18

drone flights crossed Parkway.

18

of them in May 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Parkway 18 times between 1 May 2026 and 30 May 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 May 2026.

18 of the 18 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.
ParkwayOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

4 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 18 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service67%
  2. Search11%
  3. Events11%
  4. Other6%
  5. Traffic and crashes6%

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 202611:08 pmCall for service12 mina6647537
Tue 5 May 20263:16 pmCall for service17 min98e05283
Tue 5 May 20267:45 pmCall for service11 min29a8ee80
Wed 6 May 20267:33 pmCall for service18 minef326fa9
Thu 7 May 202612:30 pmOther11 min2f1ae899
Thu 7 May 20267:31 pmCall for service12 minbc803c65
Mon 11 May 202610:56 amSearch15 minfa3d2826
Fri 15 May 202612:31 pmEvents10 min15dbc365
Sat 16 May 20265:28 pmSearch16 min0de92b7f
Sun 17 May 20268:06 amEvents15 minf8739855
Thu 21 May 20264:06 pmCall for service14 min2b6b9a93
Thu 21 May 20269:33 pmCall for service13 minfe0494dc
Mon 25 May 20266:20 pmCall for service17 min666a0ca3
Mon 25 May 20268:50 pmCall for service10 mincbb08561
Wed 27 May 20264:07 pmCall for service10 min87e242c5
Wed 27 May 20264:23 pmTraffic and crashes9 minb2839133
Thu 28 May 202610:23 pmCall for service8 mina9fe85c7
Sat 30 May 20268:11 pmCall for service9 min83a86ce5

All 18 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. "Parkway" 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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