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Rochester, Minnesota

Washington, February 2026

A neighborhood page. 10 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in February 2026.

10

drone flights crossed Washington.

10

of them in February 2026.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Washington 10 times between 4 February 2026 and 27 February 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 27 February 2026.

10 of the 10 drawable flights that crossed the area in February 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.
WashingtonOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

10% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CST).

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 10 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service50%
  2. Events30%
  3. Search10%
  4. Other10%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, February 2026

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 4 Feb 20262:13 pmCall for service13 min83f9cfb3
Thu 5 Feb 20267:44 amCall for service16 minba1b593e
Thu 5 Feb 202610:52 amEvents12 minb50f39d1
Mon 9 Feb 20262:01 pmCall for service8 minf6cdeb16
Sun 15 Feb 20269:14 pmEvents14 mincf521d91
Fri 20 Feb 202612:49 pmSearch18 mind8fb5b85
Fri 20 Feb 20262:05 pmCall for service20 min6bfec550
Fri 20 Feb 20267:18 pmEvents13 minad2e7d43
Sat 21 Feb 202612:38 amOther18 minc195c29c
Fri 27 Feb 202610:55 amCall for service10 min636d03fe

All 10 flights in February 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. "Washington" 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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