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Rochester, Minnesota

Viking Park, May 2026

A neighborhood page. 8 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

8

drone flights crossed Viking Park.

8

of them in May 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Viking Park 8 times between 1 May 2026 and 22 May 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 22 May 2026.

8 of the 8 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.
Viking ParkOne 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 8 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Training and testing50%
  2. Events25%
  3. Call for service25%

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 20264:57 pmTraining and testing16 min442dc285
Tue 5 May 202612:51 pmEvents15 mine0b21c6b
Fri 8 May 20264:47 pmCall for service13 min19e76e26
Fri 15 May 202612:03 pmEvents7 min0695f285
Thu 21 May 20266:39 pmTraining and testing6 minb45c4f57
Thu 21 May 20267:06 pmTraining and testing16 minf033a870
Fri 22 May 20268:29 amTraining and testing13 min159a83a6
Fri 22 May 202610:46 amCall for service13 minf8280457

All 8 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. "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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