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Rochester, Minnesota

Sunnyside, February 2026

A neighborhood page. 11 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in February 2026.

11

drone flights crossed Sunnyside.

11

of them in February 2026.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Sunnyside 11 times between 5 February 2026 and 28 February 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 February 2026.

11 of the 11 drawable flights that crossed the area in February 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

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

27% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CST).

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 11 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service82%
  2. Events18%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, February 2026

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 5 Feb 202610:38 amCall for service16 mineedfe7b3
Fri 6 Feb 20268:04 pmEvents18 min844b98e5
Sat 7 Feb 20266:19 pmCall for service14 min8ac11e5c
Wed 11 Feb 202612:11 pmCall for service14 min6a421d0c
Thu 19 Feb 20267:44 amCall for service15 min94159065
Fri 20 Feb 20261:31 pmCall for service16 minb3d47444
Mon 23 Feb 202611:29 pmCall for service14 min0a33b2c6
Thu 26 Feb 20261:18 amCall for service13 min293e37a6
Thu 26 Feb 20263:43 pmCall for service17 min60bf1ae5
Fri 27 Feb 202611:36 pmCall for service9 minb65fda81
Sat 28 Feb 20268:56 pmEvents16 minc7f5ddf7

All 11 flights in February 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. "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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