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Rochester, Minnesota

Sunnyside, April 2026

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

10

drone flights crossed Sunnyside.

10

of them in April 2026.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Sunnyside 10 times between 9 April 2026 and 30 April 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 April 2026.

10 of the 10 drawable flights that crossed the area in April 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.

0% 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 service70%
  2. Events10%
  3. Search10%
  4. Traffic and crashes10%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, April 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 9 Apr 20263:12 pmCall for service18 min17413f32
Thu 9 Apr 20266:51 pmCall for service13 mina43b30c9
Wed 15 Apr 20268:51 amEvents17 min88fdeab9
Sat 18 Apr 202612:35 pmCall for service13 min74542b8a
Wed 22 Apr 20268:59 amSearch13 minb096b310
Wed 22 Apr 20263:30 pmTraffic and crashes15 min5a569362
Sat 25 Apr 20268:14 pmCall for service17 mina7c85c58
Mon 27 Apr 20267:03 pmCall for service19 minacea3d8b
Wed 29 Apr 20265:44 pmCall for service14 minf3ec254f
Thu 30 Apr 20268:15 pmCall for service8 min0c20f98c

All 10 flights in April 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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