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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Friday 15 May 2026

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

30

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:59 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:59 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 30 times on Friday 15 May 2026, the first at 12:59 am and the last at 11:59 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

30 drawable flights of 30. 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. Traffic and crashes47%
  2. Patrol support23%
  3. Search13%
  4. Other7%
  5. Training and testing7%
  6. Call for service3%

Flights, in order

30 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
12:59 amPatrol support14 min14027398
1:15 amPatrol support16 min01729468
1:42 amPatrol support12 min15587401
2:16 amOther5 min0a080a77
2:31 amPatrol support8 min6d1ad2a1
3:16 amPatrol support13 min08f993ea
3:56 amPatrol support11 min7ab10cbf
9:49 amTraffic and crashes4 min6f1ef62d
10:38 amPatrol support9 min81bfc7ee
10:52 amTraffic and crashes10 minf4cfc120
11:07 amTraffic and crashes4 minbd31ace8
11:22 amTraffic and crashes5 minb7cfea0a
1:07 pmTraffic and crashes6 mincd05689b
1:18 pmTraffic and crashes7 min7f498259
1:38 pmTraining and testing8 min16af5f83
1:48 pmSearch5 mincafeee7f
3:33 pmSearch9 min71727be5
3:45 pmTraffic and crashes4 minbcc72d96
4:07 pmSearch12 min43b62e70
5:05 pmTraffic and crashes6 min4100258e
5:21 pmTraining and testing1 min 30 s9326deab
5:38 pmSearch7 min997b0482
5:46 pmTraffic and crashes3 min7363cd5d
8:09 pmOther19 min16ec733b
8:43 pmTraffic and crashes5 min19c6f7b0
9:06 pmTraffic and crashes8 mindf03c373
9:57 pmTraffic and crashes6 minda1e5d2a
10:14 pmTraffic and crashes6 min38e6d4df
10:46 pmCall for service15 minf64a530b
11:59 pmTraffic and crashes9 mindf2abc53

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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