drone flights crossed Viking Park.

of them in March 2026.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Viking Park 5 times between 4 March 2026 and 10 March 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 10 March 2026.

5 of the 5 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.

Viking ParkOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

1 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 5 flights that crossed this area.

Events40%
Training and testing40%
Call for service20%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, March 2026

Date	Takeoff (CDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
Wed 4 Mar 2026	11:25 am	Events	9 min	`9d388e98`
Thu 5 Mar 2026	10:24 am	Call for service	21 min	`82e36627`
Thu 5 Mar 2026	11:18 am	Training and testing	9 min	`5073ae47`
Thu 5 Mar 2026	11:29 am	Training and testing	8 min	`de1d6f80`
Tue 10 Mar 2026	8:40 am	Events	12 min	`d7fb0421`

All 5 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. "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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