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  4. May 2026
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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Wednesday 13 May 2026

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

21

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

1:53 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:24 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 21 times on Wednesday 13 May 2026, the first at 1:53 am and the last at 11:24 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

21 drawable flights of 21. 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 support33%
  2. Training and testing24%
  3. Search19%
  4. Not stated10%
  5. Traffic and crashes10%
  6. Other5%

Flights, in order

21 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
1:53 amPatrol support3 min89f85ded
8:49 amSearch8 min385b5998
10:22 amPatrol support8 minc22925e3
10:47 amSearch11 mincb4ca70e
11:11 amTraining and testing5 min7e70ba88
12:46 pmPatrol support18 min9c9717ba
12:51 pmTraining and testing8 min355c872b
12:52 pmTraining and testing7 min6a7bc5d0
1:14 pmTraining and testing4 min91b01286
1:14 pmTraining and testing3 mind45fbb87
2:46 pmSearch12 mind76d36ac
2:51 pmSearch18 minc1f560c3
3:17 pmNot stated15 mine65d88a6
3:34 pmPatrol support9 min163d4446
4:19 pmOther11 minf724a60e
5:19 pmTraffic and crashes19 min19ed859c
6:40 pmTraffic and crashes9 mine62bc4d1
8:16 pmPatrol support4 min7ad04765
8:50 pmNot stated11 mincb351910
9:55 pmPatrol support5 min5e9e7edd
11:24 pmPatrol support10 min332fd450

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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