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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Friday 8 May 2026

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

31

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:47 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:58 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 31 times on Friday 8 May 2026, the first at 12:47 am and the last at 11:58 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

31 drawable flights of 31. 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 testing39%
  2. Search19%
  3. Patrol support16%
  4. Traffic and crashes10%
  5. Call for service6%
  6. Other3%
  7. Assisting another agency3%
  8. Not stated3%

Flights, in order

31 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
12:47 amPatrol support14 minb15d86c8
1:48 amTraining and testing9 min2eab36ce
2:01 amOther15 min4f079ec4
12:09 pmTraining and testing13 min06b7721c
12:24 pmTraining and testing6 min1147794c
12:31 pmTraining and testing3 minac52ef1d
12:37 pmTraining and testing2 mind2c296e2
12:41 pmTraining and testing1 min 53 sc0e693aa
12:52 pmTraining and testing5 min50ad2e10
12:53 pmTraining and testing3 min44dd5a0c
12:58 pmSearch13 minb7540222
1:09 pmSearch20 min01cae878
1:29 pmSearch19 min2fd0c61e
1:58 pmAssisting another agency10 mine84fc10c
2:22 pmSearch19 min5f178e3d
2:56 pmTraining and testing50 sa5402c8b
3:02 pmTraffic and crashes14 min72b716b7
3:34 pmTraining and testing3 minbfba5a0a
3:34 pmTraining and testing1 min 45 s7bea20a2
3:35 pmTraining and testing1 min 14 sc2a6bf8f
4:08 pmTraffic and crashes15 minf4805112
4:30 pmTraffic and crashes14 min8e07a113
5:04 pmSearch20 min63a9d165
5:20 pmSearch5 min4447089a
9:02 pmPatrol support12 min1948a999
9:46 pmNot stated12 min7272df38
10:20 pmPatrol support13 min7cf55ddf
10:59 pmPatrol support11 min3e178b19
11:23 pmCall for service9 min7ce9d089
11:33 pmCall for service12 min0f9be29e
11:58 pmPatrol support4 min7a0cb08c

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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