drone flights over Dearborn that day.

8:52 am

first takeoff; the last was at 12:52 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 14 times on Thursday 19 February 2026, the first at 8:52 am and the last at 12:52 pm EST, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

14 drawable flights of 14. 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Training and testing100%

Flights, in order

14 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)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
8:52 am	Training and testing	16 min	`944a7ef1`
9:14 am	Training and testing	8 min	`4ba6e1ba`
9:22 am	Training and testing	10 min	`92bbdc6f`
10:25 am	Training and testing	16 min	`31a2699c`
11:00 am	Training and testing	10 min	`ae668f6e`
11:28 am	Training and testing	12 min	`5bbc4cee`
11:49 am	Training and testing	5 min	`e9839427`
11:57 am	Training and testing	8 min	`a4c22780`
12:07 pm	Training and testing	2 min	`9610424f`
12:11 pm	Training and testing	1 min 48 s	`912a88e6`
12:14 pm	Training and testing	43 s	`bab65c26`
12:21 pm	Training and testing	1 min 33 s	`5910e936`
12:24 pm	Training and testing	1 min 03 s	`44355dee`
12:52 pm	Training and testing	1 min 20 s	`fdcb98d1`

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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