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Rochester, Minnesota

Sunnyside, September 2025

A neighborhood page. 9 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2025.

9

drone flights crossed Sunnyside.

9

of them in September 2025.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Sunnyside 9 times between 11 September 2025 and 28 September 2025, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 September 2025.

9 of the 9 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 2025. 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

2 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 9 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service44%
  2. Training and testing33%
  3. Other22%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2025

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 11 Sep 20252:18 pmTraining and testing18 mine1f77644
Fri 12 Sep 20252:09 pmTraining and testing15 min2f689e54
Wed 24 Sep 20259:58 pmCall for service12 minf8a283fc
Thu 25 Sep 20256:36 pmCall for service8 min827f66a0
Thu 25 Sep 20258:38 pmCall for service6 min780f4152
Fri 26 Sep 20253:28 pmTraining and testing10 mind11d6481
Sat 27 Sep 20256:20 pmCall for service21 min4d2f9a38
Sat 27 Sep 20259:46 pmOther16 minea00eea0
Sun 28 Sep 202512:56 amOther14 mind52ae4cf

All 9 flights in September 2025. 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. "Sunnyside" 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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