drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:17 am

first takeoff; the last was at 2:37 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 16 times on Tuesday 31 March 2026, the first at 12:17 am and the last at 2:37 pm EDT, 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, EDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Training and testing50%
Traffic and crashes12%
Patrol support12%
Other6%
Call for service6%
Assisting another agency6%
Search6%

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 (EDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
12:17 am	Other	5 min	`de8246ac`
12:43 am	Traffic and crashes	7 min	`02930566`
12:58 am	Call for service	7 min	`dda5243d`
1:09 am	Patrol support	5 min	`c4150b5e`
1:50 am	Patrol support	6 min	`273dc50d`
2:25 am	Traffic and crashes	8 min	`e8cbad2b`
9:43 am	Training and testing	1 min 27 s	`738c32b9`
10:10 am	Training and testing	1 min 50 s	`4b3c17ba`
10:30 am	Training and testing	7 min	`31c3a856`
11:00 am	Training and testing	5 min	`26d8a721`
11:14 am	Training and testing	5 min	`db0dde43`
12:52 pm	Training and testing	9 min	`a680cc7a`
1:03 pm	Training and testing	9 min	`c05252a4`
1:18 pm	Assisting another agency	6 min	`728659f6`
2:01 pm	Training and testing	11 min	`d0940017`
2:37 pm	Search	9 min	`03114ea7`

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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