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Rochester, Minnesota

Sunnyside, May 2026

A neighborhood page. 29 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

29

drone flights crossed Sunnyside.

29

of them in May 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Sunnyside 29 times between 1 May 2026 and 31 May 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 May 2026.

29 of the 29 drawable flights that crossed the area in May 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

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

10% 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 29 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service90%
  2. Training and testing3%
  3. Events3%
  4. Traffic and crashes3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, May 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 1 May 20262:15 amCall for service22 minfc6e2d51
Fri 1 May 20266:07 pmCall for service8 min7876217b
Fri 1 May 20266:56 pmCall for service11 min9223ac0b
Fri 1 May 20267:53 pmCall for service12 min8bc98c2b
Fri 1 May 202611:08 pmCall for service12 mina6647537
Tue 5 May 20262:21 pmCall for service16 min26105db3
Wed 6 May 20266:44 pmCall for service19 minf5b2d308
Wed 6 May 20267:33 pmCall for service18 minef326fa9
Thu 7 May 202611:44 amCall for service10 mined41e73c
Fri 8 May 20268:16 amCall for service11 min6c307827
Fri 8 May 20262:52 pmTraining and testing15 min3f47d19c
Fri 8 May 20264:04 pmCall for service19 min3f5c2542
Fri 8 May 20266:27 pmCall for service13 min51b96acb
Fri 15 May 20261:17 pmCall for service16 min97bae25a
Sat 16 May 20267:36 pmCall for service14 min7003c128
Sat 16 May 20269:52 pmCall for service12 min6e750432
Tue 19 May 20269:19 amCall for service15 minac5315b9
Tue 19 May 202612:40 pmCall for service6 min759de9d2
Wed 20 May 20264:27 pmCall for service12 min5b268303
Wed 20 May 20264:59 pmEvents10 min786c9eca
Thu 21 May 20262:37 pmTraffic and crashes5 minf3d90d0b
Thu 21 May 20265:23 pmCall for service13 min03eebd37
Fri 22 May 202612:23 pmCall for service14 minf5fc58cf
Sat 23 May 202612:45 amCall for service11 min28cbdcc3
Mon 25 May 20269:38 pmCall for service19 min0e7fe77b
Tue 26 May 20269:10 pmCall for service7 mind98563c1
Thu 28 May 202612:13 pmCall for service13 min1db06565
Thu 28 May 202612:51 pmCall for service4 minbf376496
Sun 31 May 202611:09 amCall for service14 mine4acd3f9

All 29 flights in May 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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