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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Sunday 19 April 2026

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

29

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:25 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:57 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 29 times on Sunday 19 April 2026, the first at 12:25 am and the last at 11:57 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

29 drawable flights of 29. 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. Traffic and crashes45%
  2. Patrol support24%
  3. Search14%
  4. Call for service10%
  5. Other7%

Flights, in order

29 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
12:25 amTraffic and crashes8 min547a30e4
1:50 amTraffic and crashes4 min021ef759
2:21 amTraffic and crashes14 min14769ab1
3:18 amTraffic and crashes11 min8c64c84e
5:01 amOther7 minf7952d59
6:08 amTraffic and crashes14 mine1a7883a
9:52 amTraffic and crashes7 min185ec4dc
10:34 amPatrol support17 min21d5344e
11:00 amPatrol support6 min6c42cbee
11:27 amPatrol support9 min5e1d19e9
11:41 amTraffic and crashes9 min1d2c360d
11:54 amPatrol support10 mina781d4ea
12:36 pmTraffic and crashes8 min727e09d0
12:56 pmTraffic and crashes5 min0d0cc2f2
2:21 pmPatrol support19 min037d9ce8
3:02 pmTraffic and crashes9 minefe7e2d0
3:59 pmSearch25 min6257b7df
4:47 pmSearch8 minb0dc9662
5:25 pmPatrol support4 min90d1e9e6
6:07 pmPatrol support4 mine3eaf80c
7:37 pmTraffic and crashes8 minb29ad494
7:57 pmCall for service15 min3fb25a38
8:14 pmCall for service7 min1c22c6c5
8:40 pmSearch9 min6b035b83
8:50 pmTraffic and crashes11 min0a256d8d
9:35 pmOther6 mina3f43693
10:28 pmCall for service7 mindb1307e6
11:00 pmTraffic and crashes9 min27c3737e
11:57 pmSearch5 mind2c1372b

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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