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Rochester, Minnesota

SunnysideBoundary license unconfirmed, not for publication

A neighborhood page. 159 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area.

159

drone flights crossed Sunnyside.

5

of them in October 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Sunnyside 159 times between 11 September 2025 and 7 October 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 7 October 2026.

5 of the 5 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 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.
SunnysideOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

16% 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.

Month by month

Flights that crossed Sunnyside, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. 9
  2. 21
  3. 5
  4. 13
  5. 6
  6. 11
  7. 10
  8. 10
  9. 29
  10. 14
  11. 7
  12. 6
  13. 13
  14. 5
Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The two hatched bars are the most recent months and are provisional. The current month is still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 159 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service74%
  2. Events12%
  3. Other5%
  4. Traffic and crashes4%
  5. Training and testing3%
  6. Search2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 20263:42 pmCall for service10 min686c8a10
Thu 1 Oct 202610:07 pmEvents13 min5ff20183
Fri 2 Oct 20268:58 pmCall for service13 min92594fd0
Sat 3 Oct 20262:42 amCall for service23 min79eb19cb
Wed 7 Oct 20261:03 pmEvents19 min9e7f80bf

All 5 flights in October 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, simplified to 10 m.
  • 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 committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • Boundary. "Sunnyside" is a neighborhood polygon from Olmsted County GIS (Neighborhood Associations), licence recorded as "NOASSERTION", in the place layer file for Rochester. Boundary license unconfirmed, not for publication: ADR 0003 bars paging a place whose licence is unknown or share-alike; this page exists only in the local demo.
  • A flight counts for this area when its simplified path intersects the polygon (shapely). The join uses the unclipped line; only the clipped line is drawn.

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