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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Saturday 4 April 2026

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

18

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:08 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:56 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 18 times on Saturday 4 April 2026, the first at 12:08 am and the last at 11:56 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

18 drawable flights of 18. 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. Traffic and crashes67%
  2. Call for service22%
  3. Patrol support11%

Flights, in order

18 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
12:08 amCall for service11 min9b90152c
12:21 amPatrol support6 mincab09af8
12:56 amTraffic and crashes17 min4b2f6798
1:15 amTraffic and crashes10 min65554234
2:39 amTraffic and crashes6 minb7fead83
2:47 amTraffic and crashes12 min9fdbf64d
11:36 amTraffic and crashes6 minb4607645
12:13 pmTraffic and crashes5 min0f87133a
2:26 pmTraffic and crashes11 mine968c40f
3:38 pmTraffic and crashes8 min1ea65ac9
3:47 pmCall for service7 minf305dd0a
3:55 pmCall for service5 min3836e632
4:22 pmTraffic and crashes8 min1151beba
5:01 pmPatrol support10 min4165e145
5:45 pmTraffic and crashes7 minbf3d896e
9:07 pmTraffic and crashes9 min772aef0e
9:45 pmCall for service10 min74257204
11:56 pmTraffic and crashes12 min2ca0d9c8

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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