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Rochester, Minnesota

Sunnyside, March 2026

A neighborhood page. 10 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in March 2026.

10

drone flights crossed Sunnyside.

10

of them in March 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Sunnyside 10 times between 2 March 2026 and 31 March 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 March 2026.

10 of the 10 drawable flights that crossed the area in March 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

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

30% 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 10 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service80%
  2. Events20%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, March 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Mon 2 Mar 20268:55 amEvents11 mine8534e8c
Mon 2 Mar 202610:56 amCall for service8 min90612fc9
Tue 3 Mar 20269:22 amCall for service10 mina3f6e372
Thu 5 Mar 202610:30 pmCall for service18 min750c3415
Fri 20 Mar 20262:56 pmCall for service17 minacdf6ecc
Fri 20 Mar 20264:03 pmCall for service9 minf2e840f8
Sun 22 Mar 20264:01 amCall for service18 min6e7f9911
Fri 27 Mar 20269:07 amEvents9 mina3ce8cb6
Tue 31 Mar 202612:59 amCall for service17 min52f337e8
Tue 31 Mar 20264:06 pmCall for service8 mind874d502

All 10 flights in March 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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