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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Thursday 5 February 2026

11 drone flights from Dearborn Police Department's published record.

11

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

7:58 am

first takeoff; the last was at 5:39 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 11 times on Thursday 5 February 2026, the first at 7:58 am and the last at 5:39 pm EST, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

11 drawable flights of 11. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, EST.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Search55%
  2. Other18%
  3. Assisting another agency9%
  4. Training and testing9%
  5. Patrol support9%

Flights, in order

11 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.

Takeoff (EST)PurposeAirborneFlight
7:58 amAssisting another agency10 min1116f503
9:38 amSearch18 min64965639
10:22 amSearch17 minff5796aa
12:08 pmTraining and testing21 mind4696686
12:14 pmOther15 min7b6195ed
1:48 pmOther7 min2ff7cb10
2:40 pmPatrol support14 min131d7ee7
3:29 pmSearch10 min33d7680d
3:49 pmSearch4 min256f86e7
4:13 pmSearch14 minba940060
5:39 pmSearch7 minb5429d38

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
  • 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 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.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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