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Rochester, Minnesota

Washington, May 2026

A neighborhood page. 23 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

23

drone flights crossed Washington.

23

of them in May 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Washington 23 times between 1 May 2026 and 27 May 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 27 May 2026.

23 of the 23 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.
WashingtonOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

4 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 23 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service57%
  2. Events22%
  3. Other9%
  4. Search9%
  5. Training and testing4%

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 20265:43 pmOther12 min999fc23a
Sat 2 May 20262:35 pmOther10 min3ff551ee
Sat 2 May 20264:13 pmEvents16 minc567bed7
Sat 2 May 20266:49 pmEvents10 min1b18ba53
Sat 2 May 20267:10 pmEvents12 mine421586e
Tue 5 May 20269:03 amCall for service12 mincff5b05a
Wed 6 May 20263:41 pmCall for service14 min1bfedf17
Thu 7 May 20266:07 pmCall for service10 min2524ac38
Thu 7 May 20266:25 pmCall for service7 min475ad42d
Tue 12 May 20268:11 amCall for service11 min7d151039
Thu 14 May 20267:47 pmCall for service19 minf1b21a5c
Thu 14 May 20268:02 pmCall for service18 minba13b2b1
Sat 16 May 20267:22 pmTraining and testing8 min3fa4e411
Tue 19 May 20269:54 amCall for service9 min6671456c
Wed 20 May 20268:52 amCall for service9 mindc35a633
Wed 20 May 202610:23 amEvents7 min8eb578be
Wed 20 May 20265:36 pmSearch12 min56e3b6ac
Fri 22 May 20269:54 amCall for service12 min7cd719ea
Mon 25 May 20265:39 pmEvents15 mina5180654
Tue 26 May 202612:51 amCall for service12 min45f72fd9
Tue 26 May 20269:27 amSearch7 min15cff4f7
Tue 26 May 202610:13 pmCall for service13 mine2bb56ca
Wed 27 May 202612:36 pmCall for service9 min4f5f517e

All 23 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. "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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