CityDroneWatch
  1. CityDroneWatch
  2. Michigan
  3. Dearborn
  4. March 2026
  5. 12

Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Thursday 12 March 2026

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

22

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:58 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 10:31 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 22 times on Thursday 12 March 2026, the first at 12:58 pm and the last at 10:31 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

22 drawable flights of 22. 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, EDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Patrol support68%
  2. Search14%
  3. Training and testing5%
  4. Not stated5%
  5. Call for service5%
  6. Traffic and crashes5%

Flights, in order

22 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 (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
12:58 pmTraining and testing9 min196dbbde
1:19 pmSearch15 minb30ec90d
1:46 pmSearch14 min48f19b7a
2:06 pmSearch16 min6d225c32
3:02 pmNot stated13 min497c6b83
3:10 pmPatrol support14 mina7d46013
3:27 pmPatrol support18 min6c50079f
4:07 pmPatrol support12 min1ed968f2
4:37 pmPatrol support11 mina276a80d
5:03 pmPatrol support13 min43f0ea37
5:33 pmPatrol support11 min259acb61
6:27 pmPatrol support10 mind20baddc
6:38 pmPatrol support14 min95c79c7b
6:55 pmPatrol support16 min4588c55f
7:17 pmPatrol support12 min679026ae
7:36 pmPatrol support7 min3184fb6d
7:47 pmPatrol support18 min4d3887e2
8:30 pmPatrol support6 minbd869a6e
8:40 pmCall for service13 min4bebeb95
9:44 pmPatrol support5 minf76ab4a7
10:22 pmTraffic and crashes8 min66c99cae
10:31 pmPatrol support13 min3559c599

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.

Corrections and questions: see the about page. See about this site for the sources and the publication rules.