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  4. May 2026
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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Sunday 3 May 2026

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

23

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

1:45 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:15 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 23 times on Sunday 3 May 2026, the first at 1:45 am and the last at 10:15 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

23 drawable flights of 23. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Patrol support61%
  2. Traffic and crashes13%
  3. Training and testing9%
  4. Search9%
  5. Other4%
  6. Call for service4%

Flights, in order

23 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
1:45 amPatrol support1 min 15 saaed0167
6:01 amTraining and testing3 min1d1a7081
6:52 amSearch10 min82ed0453
7:11 amOther10 min0d5c6847
7:47 amPatrol support19 min49408e2e
8:26 amPatrol support9 min6dfbe908
9:07 amPatrol support12 min1818666b
9:26 amPatrol support12 min66b06075
10:56 amPatrol support11 min86b7ecb2
11:09 amTraffic and crashes6 min7845eea9
11:55 amPatrol support9 min2d418935
12:05 pmTraining and testing3 min18fae631
12:49 pmPatrol support11 min1ad1470e
1:11 pmSearch11 minc7da4fa9
2:50 pmCall for service10 min8aedb22a
3:57 pmTraffic and crashes12 min9334f343
4:21 pmPatrol support18 minaeb672ee
4:40 pmPatrol support8 minc937966c
4:56 pmPatrol support14 min5a4165a2
5:13 pmPatrol support13 min9445a0e3
6:08 pmPatrol support5 mind867dfe9
6:15 pmPatrol support19 mine1d851bb
10:15 pmTraffic and crashes9 minc15b1ad7

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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