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Rochester, Minnesota

Viking Park, October 2025

A neighborhood page. 7 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in October 2025.

7

drone flights crossed Viking Park.

7

of them in October 2025.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Viking Park 7 times between 2 October 2025 and 20 October 2025, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 20 October 2025.

7 of the 7 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 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.
Viking ParkOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

14% 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 7 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Events29%
  2. Call for service29%
  3. Training and testing14%
  4. Search14%
  5. Other14%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2025

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 2 Oct 202511:02 amEvents8 min0c56e1bc
Fri 3 Oct 202512:19 pmCall for service8 min43e8aff9
Wed 8 Oct 20254:52 pmCall for service17 mindf002a0d
Thu 9 Oct 20251:39 pmTraining and testing19 minb2afed0f
Thu 9 Oct 20254:53 pmSearch13 min96686a1d
Sat 18 Oct 20257:50 pmOther14 mind7089704
Mon 20 Oct 202511:56 pmEvents13 min7583e117

All 7 flights in October 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. "Viking Park" 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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