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  4. May 2026
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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Tuesday 19 May 2026

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

21

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:08 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:28 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 21 times on Tuesday 19 May 2026, the first at 12:08 am and the last at 10:28 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 support57%
  2. Search14%
  3. Other10%
  4. Traffic and crashes10%
  5. Call for service5%
  6. Training and testing5%

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
12:08 amOther10 min75d648c1
12:19 amPatrol support16 minad54c394
12:55 amPatrol support5 min0aec277a
3:08 amPatrol support14 min35404fd2
3:51 amPatrol support10 minb81c81d3
4:08 amPatrol support10 min11d8c13f
6:36 amPatrol support8 minb13f3ea8
10:49 amSearch11 min3c0ee552
11:15 amPatrol support10 minbc6826c4
11:16 amPatrol support10 mincc953467
11:35 amPatrol support13 min020cac67
11:59 amTraffic and crashes4 min228afa37
12:15 pmOther14 minb9a19b39
5:45 pmSearch7 min713e36d8
6:49 pmTraffic and crashes5 min27137a98
7:41 pmCall for service7 min5eeb2f33
8:05 pmSearch7 mincf8fdc23
8:37 pmTraining and testing3 min43c532e9
8:47 pmPatrol support8 min2c21ef89
8:57 pmPatrol support14 minbdd06cf7
10:28 pmPatrol support4 min2cd6c5a6

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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