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Sterling Heights, Michigan

Sterling Heights Police Department

Sterling Heights, Michigan. 59 flights in the record from July 2026.

59

drone flights in the published record.

48

flights in October 2026, the latest full month.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Sterling Heights Police Department drones flew 59 times between 21 July 2026 and 27 October 2026, by the agency's own published record. 48 of those flights were in October 2026.

Time of day
Day of week

Showing 48 of 48 flights in October 2026.

42 of the 42 drawable flights in October 2026, sampled evenly. Each path is simplified, and its first and last 200 m are removed.
One flight; takeoff and landing removed

11 hours of flight time in the record.

9 in 10 flights were shorter than 20 minutes.

15% of flights took off between 10 pm and 6 am (EDT).

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

Month by month

Flights per month, by takeoff date on the agency's local calendar. Click a month for its days.

  1. 1
  2. 0
  3. 10
  4. 48
Jul 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 for each flight, grouped into classes, as a share of all 59 flights.

  1. Other34%
  2. Training and testing32%
  3. Patrol support22%
  4. Assisting another agency5%
  5. Not stated3%
  6. Traffic and crashes3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time, over the whole record.

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Flight list, October 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.

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 2 Oct 202611:22 pmNot stated3 minda82fe4c
Fri 2 Oct 202611:26 pmTraining and testing4 min5f255d4e
Sat 3 Oct 202612:58 amOther17 min53f97ebb
Sun 4 Oct 20263:37 amOther20 min375528fd
Mon 5 Oct 20267:42 pmAssisting another agency11 min9c207fab
Tue 6 Oct 20267:58 amOther17 min276dd1cb
Tue 6 Oct 20268:16 amOther19 min2680b78b
Tue 6 Oct 20268:39 amOther18 min13712fdf
Wed 7 Oct 20268:15 amOther11 min9e93e5e7
Wed 7 Oct 202610:35 amOther11 min6bbc5391
Sat 10 Oct 20269:42 pmOther14 min1c8eba85
Mon 12 Oct 20262:55 amPatrol support18 mina18630bc
Tue 13 Oct 20261:07 amOther13 mind5d6a61b
Wed 14 Oct 20268:41 amTraining and testing3 minbcbf9c9d
Wed 14 Oct 202612:19 pmTraining and testing2 min6f33637f
Wed 14 Oct 20261:23 pmTraining and testing3 minb5683079
Wed 14 Oct 20261:27 pmTraining and testing1 min 18 s02b9a5f0
Wed 14 Oct 20261:32 pmTraining and testing4 min25467bf1
Wed 14 Oct 20261:37 pmTraining and testing1 min 20 s46de68ae
Wed 14 Oct 20261:40 pmTraining and testing3 min596443c2
Thu 15 Oct 20268:32 amTraining and testing17 minb2f540d3
Thu 15 Oct 20269:48 amOther16 minf5336043
Fri 16 Oct 20269:32 amTraffic and crashes12 minb7e53cae
Sat 17 Oct 20268:33 amPatrol support21 min0ea5c00d
Sat 17 Oct 20269:03 amPatrol support17 minc42e41f2
Sat 17 Oct 20269:30 amPatrol support21 min77ba08d1
Sat 17 Oct 20261:55 pmPatrol support21 min899cfc5b
Sat 17 Oct 20262:20 pmTraining and testing5 min11f2c44b
Sat 17 Oct 20262:28 pmAssisting another agency10 minc15534ea
Wed 21 Oct 20263:47 pmPatrol support15 minc8f67ae9
Wed 21 Oct 20264:10 pmPatrol support9 mind083377c
Wed 21 Oct 20265:09 pmTraining and testing3 minfb5f7ee9
Thu 22 Oct 20268:13 amPatrol support7 min2ec578ff
Thu 22 Oct 20262:45 pmPatrol support4 minec0b6d77
Fri 23 Oct 202610:04 amPatrol support12 mina4fbea18
Fri 23 Oct 202611:59 amTraining and testing6 min25f657b5
Fri 23 Oct 20264:02 pmTraining and testing5 min46f9e079
Fri 23 Oct 20264:09 pmTraining and testing6 mine6a0a401
Fri 23 Oct 20264:24 pmTraining and testing21 min10c4db57
Fri 23 Oct 20264:46 pmTraining and testing1 min 34 s0da9ef99
Fri 23 Oct 20264:51 pmOther21 min50939bb7
Sat 24 Oct 20266:55 pmAssisting another agency14 minedc31b27
Sun 25 Oct 20266:39 pmOther20 min1f4d2081
Sun 25 Oct 20267:25 pmPatrol support8 minea8bbad8
Sun 25 Oct 20268:27 pmOther19 minb9965cf7
Sun 25 Oct 20269:25 pmOther17 mind39bf276
Mon 26 Oct 20262:53 amTraining and testing1 min 53 s3b307155
Tue 27 Oct 20266:59 pmPatrol support16 min84feb1f2

All 48 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.
  • Without filters the map draws at most 300 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. Each month's flights are a static JSON file under flights/ next to this page; the whole-record option is an even 300-flight sample.
  • Published by the feed named: Sterling Heights Police Department (MI). The name shown on this site is that feed name cleaned of tags, prefixes and suffixes.

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