8
drone flights over Dearborn that day.
11:28 am
first takeoff; the last was at 4:33 pm.
6 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Dearborn police drones flew 8 times on Friday 24 April 2026, the first at 11:28 am and the last at 4:33 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, EDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
8 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) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:28 am | Training and testing | 6 min | 170d11e6 |
| 12:10 pm | Traffic and crashes | 7 min | f299c18f |
| 1:51 pm | Traffic and crashes | 5 min | b0c43d04 |
| 2:23 pm | Traffic and crashes | 3 min | 61f57e40 |
| 2:32 pm | Search | 5 min | e319f8a9 |
| 3:29 pm | Traffic and crashes | 7 min | fcd84ea3 |
| 4:15 pm | Traffic and crashes | 3 min | fae800b8 |
| 4:33 pm | Patrol support | 7 min | 5226eecd |
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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