drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:06 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:36 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 24 times on Monday 4 May 2026, the first at 12:06 am and the last at 11:36 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

24 drawable flights of 24. 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

Patrol support50%
Search29%
Training and testing12%
Traffic and crashes8%

Flights, in order

24 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
12:06 am	Patrol support	1 min 23 s	`a9ac2f81`
12:16 am	Search	5 min	`10adc4cc`
2:49 am	Patrol support	2 min	`705863a2`
6:09 am	Training and testing	1 min 48 s	`dac5907a`
6:14 am	Patrol support	15 min	`a9f2f92b`
8:04 am	Patrol support	8 min	`c5f853fc`
8:22 am	Training and testing	6 min	`c48612c4`
8:52 am	Search	13 min	`39f13102`
9:06 am	Traffic and crashes	4 min	`3a821b27`
9:28 am	Search	4 min	`fc4e28a9`
9:50 am	Search	7 min	`227ae9fb`
10:13 am	Patrol support	15 min	`0380b393`
10:48 am	Patrol support	9 min	`904ca68a`
11:21 am	Traffic and crashes	6 min	`907f6537`
12:49 pm	Patrol support	20 min	`1aaf5f38`
1:02 pm	Search	18 min	`51e338ad`
2:27 pm	Search	10 min	`f86ca1ea`
2:34 pm	Search	11 min	`fcedc1ac`
3:21 pm	Training and testing	1 min 14 s	`e7415561`
9:50 pm	Patrol support	8 min	`ef5195df`
10:05 pm	Patrol support	8 min	`6a44c437`
10:16 pm	Patrol support	7 min	`7677186d`
10:39 pm	Patrol support	14 min	`8ccca5b3`
11:36 pm	Patrol support	4 min	`7c573879`

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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