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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Monday 16 February 2026

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

27

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

7:53 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:13 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 27 times on Monday 16 February 2026, the first at 7:53 am and the last at 11:13 pm EST, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

27 drawable flights of 27. 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. Search30%
  2. Patrol support26%
  3. Training and testing11%
  4. Call for service11%
  5. Not stated7%
  6. Assisting another agency7%
  7. Other7%

Flights, in order

27 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
7:53 amTraining and testing10 mina149ecaf
9:06 amTraining and testing8 mind1a59355
12:27 pmSearch9 minbb6cef65
12:40 pmTraining and testing17 min06eaadb6
1:09 pmPatrol support19 mind2a0260f
2:04 pmPatrol support5 min79bd4542
2:10 pmSearch7 min90cee594
2:29 pmPatrol support20 min4aa74eca
2:52 pmNot stated6 minfa012159
2:58 pmNot stated11 mindec6534c
4:02 pmAssisting another agency17 min03db90bf
4:29 pmSearch12 mince170ff7
5:23 pmSearch8 min81d5b19d
5:54 pmPatrol support12 mind705dbab
6:01 pmSearch11 min5c8a15f8
6:23 pmSearch11 minb00a2da1
6:43 pmAssisting another agency6 min2cc0a193
6:57 pmSearch11 min64cc4b31
7:12 pmPatrol support10 mined309e49
7:33 pmPatrol support7 mindc57f5eb
8:49 pmCall for service4 min7bb956a8
9:20 pmOther5 minaac17fb4
9:38 pmOther7 min81a0ead5
10:03 pmPatrol support6 mind44f8bfd
10:12 pmSearch10 mind89207af
10:59 pmCall for service10 min50c88aa1
11:13 pmCall for service14 minfbd163c3

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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