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  4. April 2026
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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Tuesday 7 April 2026

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

28

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

1:29 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:58 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 28 times on Tuesday 7 April 2026, the first at 1:29 am and the last at 11:58 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

28 drawable flights of 28. 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. Traffic and crashes21%
  3. Search18%
  4. Training and testing11%
  5. Call for service11%
  6. Other4%

Flights, in order

28 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
1:29 amPatrol support6 minca0df84e
2:24 amPatrol support5 mincce087b8
2:49 amPatrol support6 minb25919de
4:03 amPatrol support6 min72292bf8
4:43 amPatrol support11 minf8cbe10c
6:31 amPatrol support16 min055c6899
10:59 amTraining and testing6 min797edc71
12:01 pmSearch6 minb4dcf09c
12:44 pmTraffic and crashes14 mina9c1f477
1:13 pmSearch6 min97f1e870
1:56 pmTraining and testing5 min53951ac7
3:06 pmSearch7 min1c7d8097
3:35 pmSearch8 minc240fed7
4:33 pmTraining and testing2 mine6f385b7
4:36 pmOther15 min7222ca52
6:03 pmCall for service16 minf6dfc99a
6:57 pmSearch9 minf89922ba
7:18 pmPatrol support12 mind50732d0
8:19 pmTraffic and crashes5 min92f7b451
8:28 pmPatrol support5 minfe72834b
8:38 pmTraffic and crashes13 min72cc70ed
9:02 pmTraffic and crashes8 min019e280d
9:22 pmPatrol support9 min3b71f92d
9:54 pmPatrol support9 minda89ff7e
10:34 pmCall for service16 min150b17cd
10:53 pmCall for service8 minc5e9c1f9
11:22 pmTraffic and crashes8 min88637281
11:58 pmTraffic and crashes6 min4e9bd2f2

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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