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  4. February 2026
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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Monday 9 February 2026

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

11

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

2:50 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 8:00 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 11 times on Monday 9 February 2026, the first at 2:50 pm and the last at 8:00 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. Search36%
  2. Training and testing18%
  3. Patrol support18%
  4. Other9%
  5. Traffic and crashes9%
  6. Assisting another agency9%

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
2:50 pmTraining and testing3 min998f6063
3:00 pmOther11 min30280dfd
3:53 pmTraining and testing11 min30848067
4:19 pmPatrol support9 minbfe42e07
4:34 pmPatrol support8 mind53a245c
5:35 pmSearch6 min95602f24
5:54 pmSearch7 min4e942404
6:41 pmSearch4 mina3edd77d
7:14 pmTraffic and crashes8 min747bb53c
7:48 pmSearch10 min744eeee7
8:00 pmAssisting another agency13 min2e22fcdc

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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