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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Tuesday 14 April 2026

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

30

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

7:47 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:19 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 30 times on Tuesday 14 April 2026, the first at 7:47 am and the last at 11:19 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

30 drawable flights of 30. 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. Search30%
  2. Traffic and crashes27%
  3. Training and testing13%
  4. Patrol support10%
  5. Call for service10%
  6. Assisting another agency7%
  7. Other3%

Flights, in order

30 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
7:47 amPatrol support9 minab6786a7
7:57 amPatrol support7 min7a5972f0
9:10 amTraining and testing37 sc50b0aa3
10:27 amCall for service14 minacdc375b
11:18 amPatrol support14 min4631ba8a
12:20 pmSearch7 min5495c735
12:24 pmTraining and testing11 mine30fb7ae
12:41 pmSearch9 min86cf7da7
1:02 pmCall for service20 mincf2cc644
1:57 pmSearch8 min6b5d57db
2:12 pmSearch4 min6aa61c40
2:29 pmAssisting another agency7 mind20cc083
2:37 pmSearch24 min45fe0b35
2:56 pmSearch7 minf70b20df
3:06 pmSearch14 min61c72a7a
3:20 pmTraffic and crashes7 min84655c47
3:38 pmTraffic and crashes6 min4d4fe1a3
3:54 pmTraffic and crashes5 min90d08927
4:22 pmOther7 min4fcd9453
4:54 pmSearch9 min94626dd2
5:34 pmSearch12 minb8beff14
6:30 pmTraffic and crashes6 minbad3b81e
6:50 pmAssisting another agency10 minc23deed1
7:19 pmTraffic and crashes5 min3582eb4d
8:18 pmTraining and testing3 min5a2d4937
8:22 pmTraffic and crashes8 min46e0b0ef
8:31 pmTraining and testing7 min281003fb
9:55 pmCall for service7 min9547b6f0
10:41 pmTraffic and crashes6 min6775a175
11:19 pmTraffic and crashes8 min27663410

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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