drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:41 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:11 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 21 times on Friday 1 May 2026, the first at 12:41 am and the last at 9:11 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

21 drawable flights of 21. 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

Search29%
Patrol support19%
Traffic and crashes19%
Not stated10%
Training and testing10%
Call for service10%
Other5%

Flights, in order

21 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
12:41 am	Search	13 min	`8a78e4cf`
2:01 am	Not stated	3 min	`570ce2be`
4:10 am	Patrol support	6 min	`b053e2f7`
9:05 am	Patrol support	19 min	`0288524f`
9:07 am	Training and testing	15 min	`08faa0ce`
9:27 am	Training and testing	13 min	`d410fd53`
10:49 am	Traffic and crashes	21 min	`1572cba3`
11:46 am	Patrol support	6 min	`3a99231a`
12:14 pm	Search	8 min	`04a1ba95`
12:27 pm	Other	5 min	`5c6c24ea`
12:42 pm	Traffic and crashes	9 min	`4f63bcde`
1:09 pm	Not stated	10 min	`4a7245ee`
1:44 pm	Search	8 min	`41dec2f5`
2:04 pm	Traffic and crashes	6 min	`10914f9f`
3:04 pm	Search	11 min	`17afa830`
3:37 pm	Traffic and crashes	3 min	`e051b03a`
4:30 pm	Search	9 min	`01ae4479`
4:46 pm	Search	16 min	`e63eca5a`
5:19 pm	Patrol support	16 min	`7752c80e`
8:19 pm	Call for service	8 min	`732d9a13`
9:11 pm	Call for service	6 min	`493d4739`

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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