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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Saturday 11 April 2026

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

35

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:05 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:38 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 35 times on Saturday 11 April 2026, the first at 12:05 am and the last at 10:38 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

35 drawable flights of 35. 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

  1. Training and testing43%
  2. Patrol support23%
  3. Traffic and crashes17%
  4. Search14%
  5. Call for service3%

Flights, in order

35 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
12:05 amTraining and testing7 mind6ba8708
12:25 amTraffic and crashes12 min3d468a1f
12:53 amSearch13 min3e217242
1:30 amTraining and testing10 minc0002880
2:43 amSearch13 min6d37f88b
4:01 amPatrol support11 mine1592702
4:18 amSearch19 min8df68709
5:05 amPatrol support10 minca6214f7
6:18 amTraining and testing7 minb3b9a895
6:25 amPatrol support17 minef6138bb
6:54 amTraining and testing15 mine05b743d
7:44 amTraining and testing3 min47996824
7:47 amTraining and testing10 min38406de5
8:25 amTraining and testing1 min 10 sf1929025
8:27 amTraining and testing2 min2f5038c2
8:33 amTraining and testing1 min 21 s2e873bbf
9:02 amTraining and testing1 min 00 s4ff3f22b
9:13 amTraining and testing2 minffa32558
9:27 amTraining and testing2 min3cc614dd
9:30 amTraining and testing1 min 35 sa438c2f7
9:33 amTraining and testing1 min 32 s7347b8d8
10:03 amTraining and testing44 s23a37f30
10:14 amPatrol support6 minb3e103a7
12:19 pmPatrol support9 minf62bcf31
6:34 pmTraffic and crashes9 minbc349d76
6:44 pmTraffic and crashes4 min2250dbac
6:54 pmPatrol support13 min3c24ffc0
7:53 pmTraffic and crashes4 min2a65211f
7:58 pmTraffic and crashes7 min20cd9973
8:18 pmSearch10 min4a2614ef
8:41 pmTraffic and crashes5 min59772ae9
8:59 pmSearch14 min0e712152
9:30 pmPatrol support15 mine6736ae3
10:16 pmPatrol support15 mina1ce8c5e
10:38 pmCall for service15 min926bb68e

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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