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  4. April 2026
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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Wednesday 15 April 2026

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

15

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:43 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 11:46 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 15 times on Wednesday 15 April 2026, the first at 12:43 pm and the last at 11:46 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

15 drawable flights of 15. 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. Search60%
  2. Traffic and crashes20%
  3. Training and testing7%
  4. Assisting another agency7%
  5. Patrol support7%

Flights, in order

15 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
12:43 pmTraffic and crashes6 min40e50626
12:56 pmSearch6 min6ddedebb
1:10 pmTraining and testing3 min8dc21b04
1:16 pmSearch20 min3184d7cc
2:26 pmSearch10 mincb26bd1b
2:45 pmSearch3 min1d087b7f
5:11 pmSearch12 min85431ffd
6:11 pmSearch4 min7a280e8e
6:26 pmTraffic and crashes7 min8045a940
6:35 pmAssisting another agency14 min4802cc84
10:35 pmSearch17 min8d832658
10:54 pmTraffic and crashes7 min68adc8c7
11:07 pmSearch20 min444bf87a
11:28 pmSearch15 min1303331d
11:46 pmPatrol support8 min61158cf8

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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