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Rochester, Minnesota

Viking Park, July 2026

A neighborhood page. 11 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in July 2026.

11

drone flights crossed Viking Park.

11

of them in July 2026.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Viking Park 11 times between 3 July 2026 and 21 July 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 21 July 2026.

11 of the 11 drawable flights that crossed the area in July 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.

9% 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 11 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Training and testing45%
  2. Call for service27%
  3. Events27%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, July 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 3 Jul 202611:02 pmCall for service11 mind2450439
Sun 5 Jul 202612:45 pmTraining and testing6 minde29c7d7
Sun 5 Jul 20261:11 pmTraining and testing8 min16b576b0
Thu 9 Jul 202610:42 amTraining and testing13 min4bdc4cdd
Tue 14 Jul 20268:34 amEvents9 min7ae7dca6
Tue 14 Jul 20262:35 pmTraining and testing5 min61644f02
Tue 14 Jul 20262:55 pmTraining and testing7 minc611a56e
Fri 17 Jul 202610:08 amCall for service9 min0009e302
Fri 17 Jul 20268:52 pmCall for service16 min0609c0be
Tue 21 Jul 20263:01 pmEvents16 minaa0b963c
Tue 21 Jul 20263:53 pmEvents15 min8b103c8b

All 11 flights in July 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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