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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Saturday 16 May 2026

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

24

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:09 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:40 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 24 times on Saturday 16 May 2026, the first at 12:09 am and the last at 11:40 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

24 drawable flights of 24. 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 support46%
  2. Traffic and crashes21%
  3. Search17%
  4. Other8%
  5. Call for service4%
  6. Not stated4%

Flights, in order

24 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
12:09 amTraffic and crashes6 min3c099b7f
12:34 amOther14 min184c1973
1:10 amTraffic and crashes8 min8e663a40
1:55 amCall for service12 minfcb8b3e7
5:57 amNot stated8 min0e1d99d4
8:04 amSearch17 min2a08994a
8:47 amTraffic and crashes7 minb5a75462
12:47 pmSearch7 min06e12486
12:57 pmTraffic and crashes5 min064805eb
1:26 pmSearch18 mina71b039b
1:44 pmSearch19 mindb4be7a0
2:13 pmPatrol support15 minfd83d6cd
2:31 pmPatrol support18 min794cbc76
2:54 pmPatrol support9 min6c223154
3:46 pmOther1 min 15 sab9adcf1
3:56 pmTraffic and crashes9 mine9975975
5:20 pmPatrol support14 min0a85addf
7:45 pmPatrol support8 min444203b7
8:58 pmPatrol support6 minaffb2c6f
9:08 pmPatrol support5 minca404cc1
10:52 pmPatrol support7 min4d1c0bbc
11:08 pmPatrol support5 min90555a2e
11:15 pmPatrol support7 min7fbce74b
11:40 pmPatrol support14 min31ff7d45

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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