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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Sunday 26 April 2026

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

25

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:06 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:44 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 25 times on Sunday 26 April 2026, the first at 12:06 am and the last at 11:44 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

25 drawable flights of 25. 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 support56%
  2. Search32%
  3. Traffic and crashes4%
  4. Other4%
  5. Not stated4%

Flights, in order

25 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 amPatrol support14 minef55fff6
12:27 amPatrol support12 minc3877b32
12:52 amPatrol support9 minb4f9be94
8:53 amPatrol support22 min3c2811fb
9:38 amTraffic and crashes5 minb0682704
9:56 amOther12 minccc33900
11:31 amSearch17 min729c6bd8
12:21 pmPatrol support10 minaf512a8b
12:34 pmPatrol support10 min07dd3d43
12:53 pmSearch11 min6b62b8f8
1:04 pmSearch8 min980bc3df
4:19 pmPatrol support19 min57b747a0
4:46 pmPatrol support18 minef995567
5:05 pmSearch12 min25fb70eb
6:11 pmPatrol support9 min47fb3e17
6:24 pmSearch6 minaba5bdd2
6:39 pmPatrol support11 minb589c962
6:54 pmSearch14 mine5e343be
7:31 pmSearch4 min68f7a276
8:35 pmPatrol support6 min08d882f9
8:58 pmNot stated9 minfe32aa60
9:47 pmPatrol support11 min2947d627
10:10 pmSearch9 min043aeec7
10:49 pmPatrol support7 min9aeb7423
11:44 pmPatrol support8 min3c23f7a6

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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