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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Friday 20 March 2026

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

20

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

2:04 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 11:27 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 20 times on Friday 20 March 2026, the first at 2:04 pm and the last at 11:27 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

20 drawable flights of 20. 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. Search35%
  2. Call for service30%
  3. Traffic and crashes15%
  4. Patrol support10%
  5. Not stated5%
  6. Assisting another agency5%

Flights, in order

20 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
2:04 pmSearch4 minfd826840
2:17 pmSearch7 min07d88482
2:25 pmSearch13 minc6ca752c
3:21 pmSearch6 minc56e953d
3:28 pmSearch11 min956f8bd4
3:51 pmSearch4 min09ef0053
4:03 pmSearch12 min788e7d00
5:33 pmNot stated9 min6f75dabd
6:40 pmCall for service15 mina8ed9f3c
6:58 pmCall for service11 min8eb3d2ed
7:15 pmAssisting another agency10 minc4924f4c
7:29 pmCall for service13 min5252e20b
8:34 pmCall for service14 minbd333732
8:56 pmPatrol support15 min52526402
9:12 pmPatrol support6 mina896bbef
9:19 pmCall for service15 minf264bc66
10:05 pmTraffic and crashes10 mina3cf6c7a
10:25 pmTraffic and crashes9 min88ef28d9
10:46 pmCall for service11 min5aca6432
11:27 pmTraffic and crashes9 mind8de2e98

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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