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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Wednesday 22 April 2026

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

31

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:06 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:58 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 31 times on Wednesday 22 April 2026, the first at 12:06 am and the last at 11:58 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

31 drawable flights of 31. 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. Patrol support32%
  2. Traffic and crashes29%
  3. Search19%
  4. Training and testing13%
  5. Call for service6%

Flights, in order

31 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
12:06 amSearch9 min6d0bc194
2:12 amSearch8 min5e5e02c1
2:24 amSearch8 min1bee3056
7:23 amPatrol support7 minf7bf0248
7:51 amPatrol support8 mind25b3103
8:02 amTraffic and crashes16 min646a817e
8:30 amPatrol support21 min3971e314
8:56 amSearch12 minc1eacda4
9:29 amTraining and testing18 min6519b647
9:54 amTraffic and crashes6 min76f656ed
10:05 amPatrol support19 min13cab7b0
10:12 amTraining and testing6 minf1dde563
11:03 amTraffic and crashes13 min3497c1f6
11:44 amSearch9 min0498b33d
12:19 pmTraining and testing2 mina5b4f442
1:19 pmPatrol support14 mine6429dbf
1:49 pmTraining and testing4 min8fefae70
1:51 pmPatrol support7 mina49c8a44
2:16 pmPatrol support8 min075556b9
2:28 pmTraffic and crashes6 min2a0e74dd
2:33 pmPatrol support18 minacdf9727
2:53 pmTraffic and crashes4 min3f9d8b2d
3:13 pmPatrol support9 minfc36513a
4:06 pmTraffic and crashes10 mina2df79d8
6:33 pmTraffic and crashes5 min83fb67d4
6:44 pmPatrol support7 min8bd61d94
6:55 pmTraffic and crashes4 min2c2b2ef3
10:14 pmCall for service11 mine9a7b665
11:08 pmCall for service3 minefdd442b
11:52 pmSearch4 min029c4c3b
11:58 pmTraffic and crashes6 min12c00c52

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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