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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Sunday 22 March 2026

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

21

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:02 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:28 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 21 times on Sunday 22 March 2026, the first at 12:02 am and the last at 10:28 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

21 drawable flights of 21. 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. Search48%
  2. Patrol support24%
  3. Traffic and crashes10%
  4. Call for service10%
  5. Other5%
  6. Training and testing5%

Flights, in order

21 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
12:02 amTraffic and crashes6 min4b2c9e78
2:39 amCall for service6 min938fcf0e
9:46 amSearch16 min185e465e
10:04 amOther4 mincdffaea1
10:59 amTraining and testing1 min 26 s4e678b44
12:20 pmSearch5 minec373c63
12:26 pmSearch8 min322a5c98
12:44 pmSearch14 minea0e7a52
12:59 pmSearch11 mine87628d5
1:45 pmSearch5 min13943888
2:19 pmPatrol support9 min22b043da
2:32 pmTraffic and crashes8 min17dd2466
4:12 pmSearch3 mincb4a3a52
4:29 pmSearch11 min38773896
4:48 pmSearch20 min1168cb38
5:20 pmSearch11 minff23fae6
7:11 pmPatrol support7 min31d98fd3
8:48 pmCall for service11 min863e13cb
9:21 pmPatrol support6 minff6f804a
9:34 pmPatrol support2 min95aa6722
10:28 pmPatrol support4 min36284a1a

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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