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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Tuesday 21 April 2026

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

29

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

10:47 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:14 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 29 times on Tuesday 21 April 2026, the first at 10:47 am and the last at 10:14 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Search34%
  2. Training and testing31%
  3. Not stated14%
  4. Traffic and crashes7%
  5. Patrol support7%
  6. Call for service3%
  7. Assisting another agency3%

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
10:47 amTraining and testing4 min43fbaaa0
10:54 amTraining and testing4 min59d1d7e5
11:08 amSearch3 min0775e742
12:00 pmTraining and testing15 mincafd4d34
12:00 pmTraining and testing14 min6c913aea
12:00 pmTraining and testing15 mine0b8e121
12:31 pmTraining and testing19 min20734a7f
12:31 pmTraining and testing19 min00ddbf36
12:31 pmTraining and testing19 min9bd1ff04
1:17 pmNot stated14 min48d4dd07
1:17 pmTraining and testing14 min5d301336
1:40 pmSearch18 min9298bcf3
2:02 pmNot stated18 min9594e0e6
2:20 pmNot stated6 min9e0cdfff
2:22 pmTraffic and crashes8 minf788b5f9
2:37 pmSearch15 min419c18e2
2:49 pmPatrol support11 min3e7ddbd7
3:05 pmSearch6 min255ea668
3:17 pmSearch8 minf32cf5f3
5:21 pmSearch4 min43a0b764
6:06 pmCall for service4 min6a87d0ec
6:41 pmSearch10 min4ee9b361
7:00 pmTraffic and crashes6 min639f54ff
7:43 pmNot stated9 min047b055d
8:48 pmAssisting another agency7 min89f6258a
9:24 pmPatrol support13 min1289d217
9:39 pmSearch12 mine06b6a13
9:53 pmSearch13 min9e29a47b
10:14 pmSearch15 min6218c761

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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