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Rochester, Minnesota

Washington, September 2026Boundary licence unconfirmed

A neighborhood page. 17 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

17

drone flights crossed Washington.

17

of them in September 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Washington 17 times between 2 September 2026 and 30 September 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 September 2026.

17 of the 17 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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.

12% 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 17 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service65%
  2. Search18%
  3. Other12%
  4. Events6%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 2 Sep 20263:15 pmOther20 min7c4e6a43
Wed 2 Sep 20264:33 pmCall for service13 mind998d063
Thu 3 Sep 20266:48 pmEvents11 minb85d9bbe
Fri 4 Sep 202611:18 amSearch24 min4615ec17
Fri 4 Sep 202611:43 amSearch13 minf06a1238
Sun 6 Sep 20261:45 amCall for service8 min227ea074
Tue 8 Sep 20263:27 pmCall for service12 min0b6493a0
Tue 8 Sep 20263:29 pmCall for service8 min980eec3b
Thu 10 Sep 202610:17 amCall for service20 minc149e621
Fri 11 Sep 20267:44 pmCall for service16 min766482d6
Sat 12 Sep 20264:42 pmCall for service10 min9eefd34c
Tue 15 Sep 20262:09 pmOther20 mina6397398
Thu 17 Sep 20266:53 pmCall for service14 minf063c972
Sun 20 Sep 20262:19 amCall for service11 min8bdf6c51
Fri 25 Sep 20264:58 pmSearch23 mine445ef07
Fri 25 Sep 20266:21 pmCall for service21 min8600203d
Wed 30 Sep 20268:03 pmCall for service11 minfba6c2ed

All 17 flights in September 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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