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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Sunday 17 May 2026

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

30

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:07 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:58 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 30 times on Sunday 17 May 2026, the first at 12:07 am and the last at 11:58 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. Patrol support37%
  2. Traffic and crashes23%
  3. Search10%
  4. Call for service10%
  5. Assisting another agency10%
  6. Training and testing7%
  7. Other3%

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
12:07 amSearch7 minae7a674c
12:27 amPatrol support6 minadb3c285
7:46 amSearch10 min41a45d54
8:49 amSearch7 min019c7c31
9:17 amPatrol support15 minf84f1169
10:24 amPatrol support17 min7932b149
11:01 amTraffic and crashes5 minc0c21040
11:57 amPatrol support14 min387186dd
1:01 pmPatrol support6 minc1f7716d
1:08 pmPatrol support5 min340caae0
1:43 pmPatrol support7 min8223d7f5
2:45 pmTraffic and crashes19 mind39c2e0c
3:04 pmCall for service19 minc71ebfe0
3:59 pmAssisting another agency8 min33d36c8b
4:17 pmOther9 min4f54e45c
4:37 pmPatrol support14 minbf20eadf
5:17 pmCall for service6 minf209e3b1
5:25 pmTraffic and crashes5 mindb5bef0c
5:32 pmTraffic and crashes7 min0898673c
5:40 pmAssisting another agency9 mine9d10e5a
5:53 pmTraffic and crashes5 min8db6023e
5:59 pmAssisting another agency9 min9b5788d0
6:09 pmTraffic and crashes6 mine9833896
6:18 pmTraffic and crashes6 minea4fd427
8:26 pmPatrol support8 minb9a93880
9:31 pmTraining and testing6 min00fcf0f7
11:12 pmCall for service10 min43d6eefd
11:48 pmTraining and testing6 min94cb8123
11:57 pmPatrol support45 s01b9d279
11:58 pmPatrol support15 min7dc06d90

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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