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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Monday 18 May 2026

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

31

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:44 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:39 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 31 times on Monday 18 May 2026, the first at 12:44 am and the last at 11:39 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

31 drawable flights of 31. 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 support39%
  2. Traffic and crashes23%
  3. Search23%
  4. Call for service6%
  5. Training and testing3%
  6. Assisting another agency3%
  7. Other3%

Flights, in order

31 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
12:44 amTraffic and crashes8 min60f1a83d
7:16 amTraffic and crashes4 mina45a05f9
7:20 amSearch5 mina02d4bff
7:28 amPatrol support10 min6e62c2a1
7:47 amTraffic and crashes4 minfb09f484
7:52 amTraffic and crashes9 min469a393c
8:58 amPatrol support8 min61324981
9:13 amSearch11 mind452ea0f
9:26 amTraffic and crashes5 min6d238c83
9:33 amCall for service3 min51b9bc17
9:45 amPatrol support14 min855d5354
10:21 amTraining and testing5 mine4756ff3
10:33 amPatrol support17 min9fb47699
11:10 amPatrol support17 min638891b0
11:59 amPatrol support13 mine749b858
1:01 pmTraffic and crashes7 min86053e29
1:06 pmSearch8 minc95de07a
1:35 pmPatrol support18 min33a24b95
2:06 pmTraffic and crashes17 mina3560f88
2:19 pmAssisting another agency10 min306ddbef
2:34 pmPatrol support17 mincd041a7e
2:55 pmSearch17 min8941e77c
3:11 pmSearch16 minf09ff48b
4:29 pmSearch15 min902476cf
4:46 pmOther14 min1d7b86c7
8:20 pmPatrol support15 min9e58273e
8:39 pmCall for service4 mina1d074f6
9:08 pmPatrol support4 min34f503d2
10:08 pmPatrol support14 min49c0fa16
11:11 pmPatrol support14 min87c99769
11:39 pmSearch10 min9e8ca7db

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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