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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Wednesday 1 April 2026

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

14

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

7:35 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:35 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 14 times on Wednesday 1 April 2026, the first at 7:35 am and the last at 7:35 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

14 drawable flights of 14. 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. Patrol support36%
  2. Training and testing36%
  3. Search14%
  4. Call for service14%

Flights, in order

14 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
7:35 amPatrol support12 min98bc18b2
9:34 amTraining and testing3 minef758c4e
9:37 amPatrol support13 min864ede8d
9:38 amPatrol support17 minc0579198
11:36 amPatrol support9 mina0519356
12:50 pmPatrol support9 min6eb652ec
1:04 pmTraining and testing1 min 30 s02526036
1:21 pmTraining and testing1 min 34 s33a8f829
1:53 pmTraining and testing1 min 07 s11c41db9
3:13 pmTraining and testing20 mincc860c4c
4:34 pmSearch7 minab96dd5f
4:46 pmCall for service8 min8a86dc4a
6:04 pmSearch7 min05ba377e
7:35 pmCall for service20 min7c7c5746

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
  • 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 fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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