drone flights over Dearborn that day.

1:39 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:03 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 16 times on Monday 6 April 2026, the first at 1:39 am and the last at 7:03 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

Search31%
Patrol support19%
Training and testing12%
Call for service12%
Traffic and crashes12%
Not stated6%
Other6%

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
1:39 am	Training and testing	12 min	`767a606a`
3:31 am	Search	7 min	`44614d76`
4:25 am	Call for service	9 min	`1b8a3565`
11:25 am	Not stated	7 min	`a952dc53`
12:14 pm	Search	17 min	`1a3f2ad7`
1:15 pm	Other	4 min	`78f1965b`
1:22 pm	Search	16 min	`6018183d`
2:38 pm	Call for service	7 min	`3208d46f`
2:48 pm	Training and testing	1 min 58 s	`67e41df8`
2:59 pm	Patrol support	16 min	`58a939cb`
5:13 pm	Search	13 min	`8fb0e857`
5:27 pm	Traffic and crashes	3 min	`359f6cc1`
5:43 pm	Traffic and crashes	6 min	`7c75d826`
6:32 pm	Search	14 min	`a859c18a`
6:47 pm	Patrol support	16 min	`c556ebba`
7:03 pm	Patrol support	6 min	`60a91b4a`

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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