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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Monday 27 April 2026

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

33

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:29 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:25 pm.

6 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 33 times on Monday 27 April 2026, the first at 12:29 am and the last at 11:25 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

33 drawable flights of 33. 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. Training and testing33%
  2. Traffic and crashes27%
  3. Patrol support15%
  4. Search12%
  5. Other6%
  6. Call for service3%
  7. Not stated3%

Flights, in order

33 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
12:29 amPatrol support12 min3370e5e2
12:46 amPatrol support5 min4a017a9e
1:19 amCall for service13 min50bc1fad
1:38 amSearch9 min4bcac90d
2:58 amPatrol support11 min416c186c
8:03 amTraffic and crashes6 minfecf1fb8
8:21 amSearch14 min17a65fd4
8:36 amOther20 mina6d1c4cb
8:57 amOther5 minf7f7d24e
10:04 amTraining and testing2 minc6c80177
10:27 amTraffic and crashes7 min977d9cce
10:41 amTraining and testing6 min81aa2b2d
11:01 amTraffic and crashes4 min2d52d386
11:21 amSearch12 mindd1c50bf
12:20 pmTraffic and crashes4 minb80fa315
12:40 pmTraffic and crashes6 minfd38070a
12:49 pmTraffic and crashes8 minf8de9482
1:18 pmTraining and testing3 minfdd69796
1:25 pmPatrol support6 minfbb68599
1:47 pmSearch15 min42d27f44
2:23 pmPatrol support9 min8748fcb5
3:16 pmNot stated7 min1162e483
3:31 pmTraining and testing5 min3e9535f9
5:49 pmTraffic and crashes5 minc10b8a46
6:31 pmTraffic and crashes17 mindec6d97f
9:04 pmTraining and testing1 min 51 sfa2308fb
9:10 pmTraffic and crashes5 minad9a8d45
9:35 pmTraining and testing4 min0fcabc72
9:46 pmTraining and testing2 min6c6712da
9:57 pmTraining and testing4 min5b767ce2
10:14 pmTraining and testing4 minfbab01a3
10:25 pmTraining and testing9 mincb8cb2fb
11:25 pmTraining and testing3 min0a922e13

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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