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Saint Paul, Minnesota

West Side, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 13 of the 2,254 flights in St. Paul Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

13

drone flights crossed West Side.

13

of them in August 2026.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed West Side 13 times between 2 August 2026 and 30 August 2026, by St. Paul Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 August 2026.

13 of the 13 drawable flights that crossed the area in August 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.
West SideOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

8% 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 13 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service92%
  2. Search8%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sun 2 Aug 20261:27 amCall for service19 min09a0a961
Sun 2 Aug 20261:45 pmCall for service8 min8834e5ee
Sun 9 Aug 20269:58 pmCall for service10 min0d01f5a5
Mon 10 Aug 20266:20 pmCall for service13 min75304dcd
Thu 13 Aug 20268:56 pmCall for service20 min932359e2
Sun 16 Aug 20268:46 pmCall for service16 min799d8c05
Mon 17 Aug 20264:44 pmSearch15 mina8c8219e
Tue 18 Aug 20267:06 amCall for service17 min9f8032dd
Fri 21 Aug 20267:06 pmCall for service13 min275e11fe
Mon 24 Aug 202611:27 amCall for service13 min1a57e459
Wed 26 Aug 20266:32 pmCall for service20 min9c299ea8
Thu 27 Aug 20267:23 amCall for service21 min7a14fb00
Sun 30 Aug 20269:06 pmCall for service17 min9b0e719b

All 13 flights in August 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. "West Side" 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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