drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:03 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:34 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 19 times on Saturday 9 May 2026, the first at 12:03 am and the last at 11:34 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

19 drawable flights of 19. 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 support37%
Search32%
Call for service21%
Traffic and crashes5%
Assisting another agency5%

Flights, in order

19 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
12:03 am	Call for service	9 min	`645483fa`
12:24 am	Call for service	8 min	`a03fdbcb`
12:59 am	Call for service	13 min	`84cc63f2`
1:16 am	Search	16 min	`3b72375e`
1:47 am	Search	13 min	`82c3464a`
2:16 am	Call for service	18 min	`04d9931a`
2:43 am	Search	15 min	`dd296c4b`
8:02 am	Patrol support	8 min	`fa5a7a3a`
10:56 am	Patrol support	9 min	`8536c3bd`
11:19 am	Traffic and crashes	7 min	`67744fad`
12:29 pm	Patrol support	15 min	`14f88a83`
4:21 pm	Search	5 min	`316ab534`
5:17 pm	Search	13 min	`55176671`
9:58 pm	Search	7 min	`bf956b15`
10:14 pm	Patrol support	8 min	`1b4effc3`
10:53 pm	Patrol support	13 min	`d3afe0d1`
11:17 pm	Patrol support	9 min	`75e492a3`
11:28 pm	Patrol support	5 min	`55a52c84`
11:34 pm	Assisting another agency	6 min	`1b461131`

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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