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  4. February 2026
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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Friday 6 February 2026

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

13

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

7:47 am

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

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 13 times on Friday 6 February 2026, the first at 7:47 am and the last at 5:39 pm EST, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

13 drawable flights of 13. 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. Search54%
  2. Patrol support15%
  3. Training and testing15%
  4. Not stated8%
  5. Traffic and crashes8%

Flights, in order

13 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
7:47 amPatrol support9 min9d7a272d
11:02 amPatrol support20 min665bf2fc
11:36 amTraining and testing3 min5f8b60b2
12:48 pmNot stated8 min9eb46e1e
1:03 pmSearch13 min7defe87c
1:37 pmTraining and testing1 min 56 sc59f946c
1:42 pmSearch13 min90e71337
2:02 pmSearch7 min2f230ae1
3:12 pmSearch18 mine0480a6f
3:37 pmTraffic and crashes4 min577625d6
4:29 pmSearch9 min937196ee
4:49 pmSearch6 minc540b735
5:39 pmSearch11 min4bfb298f

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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