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Saint Paul, Minnesota

West Side, October 2026

A neighborhood page. 16 of the 2,254 flights in St. Paul Police Department's record crossed this area in October 2026.

16

drone flights crossed West Side.

16

of them in October 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed West Side 16 times between 1 October 2026 and 28 October 2026, by St. Paul Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 October 2026.

16 of the 16 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; 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.

44% 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 16 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service88%
  2. Training and testing6%
  3. Other6%

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
Tue 6 Oct 202610:17 pmCall for service10 min492dde03
Sun 11 Oct 20267:15 pmCall for service17 mind0e09de0
Mon 12 Oct 20261:57 pmCall for service6 min8afd424f
Wed 14 Oct 20262:32 pmTraining and testing8 min366ed10b
Sat 17 Oct 20266:23 pmCall for service18 min9a0bcb28
Sun 18 Oct 202611:44 amCall for service18 min65850bf5
Mon 19 Oct 20266:35 pmOther16 minff2e0981
Wed 21 Oct 20265:45 pmCall for service11 min8c3fdc28
Wed 21 Oct 202610:50 pmCall for service20 min4ef9af00
Thu 22 Oct 202611:16 pmCall for service10 minbfad4940
Sat 24 Oct 202610:03 pmCall for service15 mine8942969
Sun 25 Oct 20268:51 pmCall for service15 minbfa9dbff
Sun 25 Oct 20269:19 pmCall for service14 mine2394c30
Sun 25 Oct 202611:29 pmCall for service11 min6ba71764
Wed 28 Oct 202612:52 amCall for service6 min1bdacfe2

All 16 flights in October 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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