drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:18 am

first takeoff; the last was at 2:58 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 16 times on Monday 11 May 2026, the first at 12:18 am and the last at 2:58 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

16 drawable flights of 16. 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 support38%
Traffic and crashes31%
Search19%
Assisting another agency6%
Training and testing6%

Flights, in order

16 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
12:18 am	Patrol support	12 min	`7a2124bb`
1:49 am	Patrol support	5 min	`9ad8730e`
1:54 am	Patrol support	17 min	`45022d90`
3:15 am	Patrol support	14 min	`c050d1ec`
6:20 am	Traffic and crashes	8 min	`4ca535f3`
6:54 am	Traffic and crashes	8 min	`fb12c284`
7:24 am	Patrol support	7 min	`34db9848`
7:38 am	Assisting another agency	10 min	`18e5312d`
7:54 am	Training and testing	10 min	`d084d253`
8:41 am	Search	8 min	`26c7c68b`
9:32 am	Traffic and crashes	6 min	`dcf9a27d`
9:45 am	Traffic and crashes	6 min	`e593935f`
11:28 am	Traffic and crashes	6 min	`38157749`
11:49 am	Search	16 min	`1a334266`
12:44 pm	Patrol support	10 min	`7be4541d`
2:58 pm	Search	17 min	`d13c892a`

How this page is made

Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
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 fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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