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  4. April 2026
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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Sunday 12 April 2026

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

16

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:10 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:32 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 16 times on Sunday 12 April 2026, the first at 12:10 am and the last at 11:32 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Patrol support62%
  2. Traffic and crashes19%
  3. Call for service6%
  4. Other6%
  5. Search6%

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)PurposeAirborneFlight
12:10 amPatrol support6 min22ee9783
1:19 amPatrol support8 min9bab07e4
1:35 amPatrol support10 mincfea86be
2:10 amTraffic and crashes11 min0f5f5ae6
3:22 amTraffic and crashes13 min3d43d037
4:12 amPatrol support6 min6d028dbc
1:52 pmPatrol support13 minc1884756
2:26 pmPatrol support11 mine0d63b32
3:14 pmPatrol support1 min 59 sb7813f29
3:35 pmCall for service7 minfb7d6b8d
6:38 pmOther6 min3c89ff28
6:47 pmTraffic and crashes7 min62a2427b
8:21 pmPatrol support11 min84ff2632
8:32 pmPatrol support14 min433ae77e
11:09 pmSearch19 min4e31c121
11:32 pmPatrol support3 min7382ebc7

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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