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Saint Paul, Minnesota

Downtown, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 58 of the 2,254 flights in St. Paul Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

58

drone flights crossed Downtown.

58

of them in September 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Downtown 58 times between 1 September 2026 and 30 September 2026, by St. Paul Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 September 2026.

58 of the 58 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.
DowntownOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

11 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 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 58 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service90%
  2. Search5%
  3. Not stated2%
  4. Other2%
  5. Training and testing2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 1 Sep 20262:05 amCall for service19 min06094af3
Tue 1 Sep 202610:14 pmCall for service15 min6f5f15ad
Tue 1 Sep 202611:27 pmCall for service6 mind102e1ba
Wed 2 Sep 20269:41 amCall for service3 mincb8a9634
Wed 2 Sep 202610:54 pmCall for service5 mine608cbf4
Thu 3 Sep 202612:14 amCall for service15 mindc03a9f0
Thu 3 Sep 20268:16 pmCall for service8 min12a992c2
Fri 4 Sep 202612:31 amCall for service12 min5c6120aa
Fri 4 Sep 20266:23 amCall for service13 min95f31e6b
Fri 4 Sep 20265:57 pmCall for service9 minb1206f53
Fri 4 Sep 20269:31 pmCall for service15 min6f1fb921
Sat 5 Sep 20261:26 amCall for service11 min6bdbb793
Sat 5 Sep 20268:57 pmCall for service11 mincdaefa8c
Sun 6 Sep 20265:41 pmCall for service15 mind95ce417
Sun 6 Sep 202610:17 pmCall for service18 min5b1e5aec
Mon 7 Sep 202611:44 amCall for service16 minf0679be7
Mon 7 Sep 20261:15 pmSearch9 min1bbf5cc8
Tue 8 Sep 20266:51 pmCall for service6 minf8421397
Wed 9 Sep 202611:34 amCall for service13 min56e37331
Wed 9 Sep 20267:17 pmCall for service8 min681f3a09
Wed 9 Sep 202610:44 pmCall for service5 min854aab32
Thu 10 Sep 202610:49 amCall for service13 minebd89bf5
Thu 10 Sep 20264:19 pmCall for service8 min75c4e2f2
Fri 11 Sep 20262:34 amCall for service4 mind60c7250
Fri 11 Sep 20269:07 amCall for service8 min311aa9fa
Sun 13 Sep 202612:49 amCall for service16 min8f63667e
Sun 13 Sep 20268:29 pmCall for service17 minb22651a3
Mon 14 Sep 20263:39 pmNot stated17 min7c94b27c
Mon 14 Sep 20267:21 pmCall for service8 min49daf4d2
Tue 15 Sep 202612:25 amCall for service15 min89e6a35c
Tue 15 Sep 20268:19 amSearch14 min15623802
Tue 15 Sep 20269:20 amCall for service16 min3ef221b8
Wed 16 Sep 202612:14 amCall for service11 min6150e864
Wed 16 Sep 20266:48 pmCall for service11 mindaea9c89
Thu 17 Sep 202612:00 pmCall for service8 min2ac241ce
Thu 17 Sep 20269:15 pmCall for service10 min7df0480c
Thu 17 Sep 202611:47 pmCall for service8 min828a5b56
Fri 18 Sep 20267:00 amCall for service17 min7dc79531
Sat 19 Sep 20265:15 pmCall for service15 min2b7e4d9d
Sat 19 Sep 202611:57 pmCall for service5 min3f290f58
Mon 21 Sep 20263:01 pmSearch13 min63d97d1f
Mon 21 Sep 20265:05 pmCall for service17 mina7901134
Tue 22 Sep 20266:13 pmCall for service14 min66559774
Wed 23 Sep 20261:00 amCall for service8 min4a3fcc9a
Wed 23 Sep 20268:46 amCall for service5 min7e9b9f09
Wed 23 Sep 202611:50 amCall for service13 minc0e14f4c
Thu 24 Sep 20264:09 pmCall for service10 min874fa286
Thu 24 Sep 20267:41 pmOther16 min2125905e
Fri 25 Sep 20265:43 pmCall for service14 min9ce8568c
Fri 25 Sep 202611:02 pmCall for service12 min68bb5f25
Sat 26 Sep 202612:03 amCall for service10 min0562e89e
Sat 26 Sep 20261:50 amCall for service7 min9739e3a1
Sat 26 Sep 20266:36 pmCall for service15 minb32d64c4
Sun 27 Sep 20261:38 amTraining and testing3 mina9d0dd26
Sun 27 Sep 20266:54 pmCall for service6 mincccc8de8
Mon 28 Sep 20266:26 pmCall for service13 minb181350c
Wed 30 Sep 20268:36 amCall for service13 min239243ee
Wed 30 Sep 20267:44 pmCall for service9 min2a41f4d8

All 58 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. "Downtown" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Saint Paul (District Councils / Planning Districts), licence "Public Domain".
  • A flight counts for this area when its path crosses the boundary; only the part inside is drawn.

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