435
drone flights in the published record.
1
flights in March 2026, the latest full month.
11 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Where this record comes from
Skydio? Skydio is a US drone maker. Agencies flying its drones as first responders can publish a public flight log on a Skydio-hosted transparency dashboard, which lists each flight with its takeoff, landing, path and stated purpose.
This record publishes flight id, takeoff and landing to the second, full path, stated purpose; every participating agency. Open Detroit Fire Department's own published record.
Detroit Fire Department drones flew 435 times between 4 February 2024 and 9 March 2026, by the agency's own published record. 1 of those flights were in March 2026.
101 hours of flight time in the record.
9 in 10 flights were shorter than 29 minutes.
1% of flights took off between 10 pm and 6 am (EDT).
0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.
Month by month
Flights per month, by takeoff date on the agency's local calendar. Click a month for its days.
The hatched bar is the current month, still in progress.
Why, in the agency's words
The agency's stated purpose for each flight, grouped into classes, as a share of all 435 flights.
Hour of day
Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time, over the whole record.
Flight list, March 2026
Every listable flight in the view, oldest first: date, takeoff time, purpose class, time airborne and the first eight characters of the source flight id. The filters above the map apply here too.
| Date | Takeoff (EDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 9 Mar 2026 | 12:21 pm | Other | 3 min | d4484e49 |
All 1 flights in March 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.
- Without filters the map draws at most 400 flights, sampled evenly from the latest full month, and the flight list is that month, capped at 500 rows. With filters the map draws at most 400 and the list at most 500, both sampled evenly, and the count line says when a cap applied. The whole-record option is an even 400-flight sample.
- Record source: the agency's Skydio transparency feed?, published under the name
Detroit Fire Department.
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