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  4. March 2026
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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Friday 6 March 2026

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

16

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

9:04 am

first takeoff; the last was at 6:25 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 16 times on Friday 6 March 2026, the first at 9:04 am and the last at 6:25 pm EST, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

16 drawable flights of 16. 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. Search75%
  2. Not stated6%
  3. Traffic and crashes6%
  4. Call for service6%
  5. Other6%

Flights, in order

16 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
9:04 amNot stated4 minbc1df8ab
11:57 amSearch16 min9e5f9874
12:19 pmSearch16 min5447b583
12:41 pmSearch13 min89ba33d8
1:17 pmSearch9 min6570743d
1:53 pmSearch13 min5582088a
2:58 pmTraffic and crashes3 min78060be8
3:02 pmSearch5 min30fdd710
4:00 pmSearch15 min266408b7
4:19 pmSearch3 min0a0856f7
4:49 pmCall for service7 min8bafba6c
5:00 pmSearch13 min2969d805
5:14 pmOther19 min0fa17e06
5:42 pmSearch4 mineece11f4
5:58 pmSearch4 min31e17e74
6:25 pmSearch16 mind354ad43

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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