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Saint Paul, Minnesota

Downtown

A neighborhood page. 505 of the 2,218 flights in St. Paul Police Department's record crossed this area.

505

drone flights crossed Downtown.

91

of them in October 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Downtown 505 times between 1 June 2026 and 28 October 2026, by St. Paul Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 October 2026.

90 of the 90 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 2026. The outlined area is the neighborhood. Paths run beyond it because each whole flight is drawn, minus its first and last 200 m.
DowntownOne flight; takeoff and landing removed

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

34% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CDT).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are counted but never listed or drawn.

Month by month

Flights that crossed Downtown, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. 132
  2. 100
  3. 124
  4. 58
  5. 91
Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The two hatched bars are the most recent months and are provisional. The current month is still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 505 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service63%
  2. Not stated30%
  3. Search3%
  4. Other2%
  5. Training and testing2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 202612:28 amCall for service6 min4dd59b9b
Thu 1 Oct 20269:31 pmOther14 min5ebf6c10
Thu 1 Oct 202610:26 pmCall for service5 min0cf99b60
Fri 2 Oct 20262:17 amCall for service11 min6e5c6a32
Fri 2 Oct 20266:13 amOther16 min3af3465b
Fri 2 Oct 20269:36 pmOther14 mine10f796f
Sat 3 Oct 202612:58 amCall for service14 min0f04daf5
Sat 3 Oct 202610:24 amCall for service10 min97741ffd
Sat 3 Oct 20262:29 pmCall for service8 minb7e299df
Sat 3 Oct 20267:57 pmCall for service17 minb14d4af1
Sat 3 Oct 202611:15 pmCall for service7 min39181cb6
Sat 3 Oct 202611:33 pmCall for service16 min9eb64fc2
Sun 4 Oct 20261:12 amCall for service15 mina53df34b
Sun 4 Oct 20267:50 amCall for service13 minb2607cf5
Sun 4 Oct 20261:58 pmSearch16 min036aefe3
Sun 4 Oct 20265:53 pmCall for service14 min81afd74b
Sun 4 Oct 20266:56 pmCall for service16 min6f49d92c
Sun 4 Oct 20267:49 pmCall for service15 min0422a758
Sun 4 Oct 202610:17 pmCall for service13 minaebff1ec
Mon 5 Oct 20267:35 amCall for service10 min8a47e8ed
Mon 5 Oct 20266:24 pmCall for service14 min80a23ae6
Tue 6 Oct 202612:28 pmCall for service15 min97cb8ec6
Tue 6 Oct 20267:05 pmCall for service13 min93113314
Tue 6 Oct 20268:32 pmCall for service15 mincc3fc023
Tue 6 Oct 202610:17 pmCall for service10 min492dde03
Wed 7 Oct 202612:33 amCall for service14 min390f73ca
Wed 7 Oct 20264:34 pmCall for service6 min66fc5897
Wed 7 Oct 20269:30 pmOther15 min50d53367
Wed 7 Oct 202611:43 pmCall for service6 min86ec8965
Thu 8 Oct 20269:37 amCall for service13 min32751aec
Thu 8 Oct 202610:41 amCall for service7 mind3b56a4e
Thu 8 Oct 20262:36 pmCall for service7 minafe151e2
Thu 8 Oct 20265:54 pmOther16 minbf12f461
Thu 8 Oct 20268:41 pmCall for service2 min27cf3b95
Thu 8 Oct 20269:41 pmOther16 min6fcca4ad
Fri 9 Oct 20262:18 pmTraining and testing20 min9395f732
Fri 9 Oct 20266:43 pmCall for service16 min76840245
Fri 9 Oct 202611:34 pmCall for service19 min461b2f3a
Sat 10 Oct 202611:09 amCall for service16 min2a151b46
Sat 10 Oct 20268:11 pmSearch5 min9384c42f
Sun 11 Oct 20267:15 pmCall for service17 mind0e09de0
Sun 11 Oct 20269:37 pmCall for service19 minbe6ca87a
Mon 12 Oct 20261:31 amCall for service11 mincbc03cf2
Mon 12 Oct 20262:32 amCall for service8 min7b3aab8a
Mon 12 Oct 20261:57 pmCall for service6 min8afd424f
Tue 13 Oct 20261:47 pmCall for service19 min3d8097df
Tue 13 Oct 20264:32 pmCall for service5 min0d0fd880
Wed 14 Oct 20262:12 pmCall for service11 minf7a16cab
Wed 14 Oct 20262:32 pmTraining and testing8 min366ed10b
Wed 14 Oct 20264:56 pmCall for service22 minc3be8a7c
Wed 14 Oct 20268:48 pmCall for service16 minb9e10297
Thu 15 Oct 20267:14 pmCall for service14 mina5fa46d3
Fri 16 Oct 20265:14 pmCall for service4 minf2ae4a10
Fri 16 Oct 20267:03 pmCall for service11 minb551fa98
Fri 16 Oct 20267:59 pmCall for service18 min92e24dc7
Fri 16 Oct 20269:58 pmCall for service20 min7a5daf0a
Sat 17 Oct 20266:23 pmCall for service18 min9a0bcb28
Sun 18 Oct 20261:00 amCall for service10 min26a27157
Sun 18 Oct 202611:44 amCall for service18 min65850bf5
Sun 18 Oct 20268:04 pmCall for service16 mind59679af
Mon 19 Oct 20268:29 amCall for service14 min98e2287f
Mon 19 Oct 20266:35 pmOther16 minff2e0981
Mon 19 Oct 20267:18 pmCall for service9 min71c706a0
Mon 19 Oct 20268:00 pmCall for service17 min2ad9d1ae
Tue 20 Oct 20262:49 amCall for service12 min8ad9a914
Tue 20 Oct 20266:15 amNot stated14 min699e7ed3
Tue 20 Oct 20269:35 amCall for service19 mincfae7326
Tue 20 Oct 20261:35 pmCall for service11 minee2f56c2
Tue 20 Oct 20266:48 pmCall for service7 min2bedff00
Tue 20 Oct 20269:47 pmCall for service19 min79c361de
Wed 21 Oct 202612:29 amCall for service5 min9a519150
Wed 21 Oct 20268:53 amCall for service16 minf72a1826
Wed 21 Oct 20261:55 pmCall for service11 min77c17c9e
Wed 21 Oct 20265:45 pmCall for service11 min8c3fdc28
Wed 21 Oct 20266:42 pmCall for service17 min7c6816fe
Wed 21 Oct 20268:59 pmOther17 min99920115
Wed 21 Oct 202610:50 pmCall for service20 min4ef9af00
Thu 22 Oct 20269:12 pmCall for service20 mind98864db
Thu 22 Oct 202611:16 pmCall for service10 minbfad4940
Fri 23 Oct 202612:14 amCall for service16 minb3159c5e
Fri 23 Oct 20265:57 pmCall for service7 min98260cef
Sat 24 Oct 20261:25 pmCall for service4 min235a78c9
Sat 24 Oct 20263:34 pmCall for service9 min117b34cc
Sat 24 Oct 202610:03 pmCall for service15 mine8942969
Sun 25 Oct 20268:51 pmCall for service15 minbfa9dbff
Sun 25 Oct 202611:29 pmCall for service11 min6ba71764
Mon 26 Oct 202610:28 amCall for service11 min88c77770
Tue 27 Oct 20268:55 pmCall for service17 min22f76348
Tue 27 Oct 202611:16 pmCall for service14 minb2a8dddb
Wed 28 Oct 202612:52 amCall for service6 min1bdacfe2
Wed 28 Oct 20269:58 amCall for service6 min1f0ad346

All 91 listable flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are counted in the totals but not listed. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
  • Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
  • Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • Boundary. "Downtown" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Saint Paul (District Councils / Planning Districts), licence recorded as "Public Domain", in the place layer file for Saint Paul.
  • A flight counts for this area when its simplified path intersects the polygon (shapely). The join uses the unclipped line; only the clipped line is drawn.

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