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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Monday 30 March 2026

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

23

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:49 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 11:44 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 23 times on Monday 30 March 2026, the first at 12:49 pm and the last at 11:44 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

23 drawable flights of 23. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Search57%
  2. Patrol support17%
  3. Call for service13%
  4. Traffic and crashes9%
  5. Training and testing4%

Flights, in order

23 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
12:49 pmPatrol support14 min4d6954d4
1:23 pmSearch19 min6d1d6f92
1:42 pmSearch20 min46485801
2:04 pmSearch14 min36301782
2:22 pmSearch9 min295c9a96
2:38 pmSearch20 min920f55ae
3:04 pmSearch15 minac7995ed
3:41 pmSearch19 minb4f8caab
4:03 pmSearch19 minfa9f0b7d
4:23 pmSearch11 mindbf20b47
4:56 pmSearch10 min52d5a27c
5:36 pmTraining and testing39 sdf38ad97
5:37 pmSearch7 minab8bce26
6:30 pmSearch13 minec6e9302
8:04 pmTraffic and crashes8 mineee4f1e4
9:20 pmPatrol support9 mind28dcb47
9:33 pmPatrol support8 min42b6de11
9:57 pmCall for service9 minca0a820d
10:11 pmTraffic and crashes6 min0494267f
10:44 pmCall for service7 min054910c8
11:00 pmPatrol support12 min23cf75db
11:26 pmSearch14 min5e55aed8
11:44 pmCall for service6 min1eee2a72

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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