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  4. May 2026
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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Saturday 23 May 2026

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

11

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:19 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:16 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 11 times on Saturday 23 May 2026, the first at 12:19 am and the last at 11:16 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

11 drawable flights of 11. 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 support45%
  2. Training and testing18%
  3. Call for service18%
  4. Search9%
  5. Other9%

Flights, in order

11 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
12:19 amPatrol support14 min2a69a39d
10:55 amTraining and testing6 min296e85d8
11:36 amTraining and testing3 min8b9bcc6a
5:29 pmPatrol support14 min7df771ad
7:09 pmPatrol support6 mindfc39e9a
7:17 pmCall for service17 min2940f95a
7:39 pmCall for service12 minfc14ddd6
8:03 pmSearch12 min787dbbbd
9:30 pmOther5 min3200131c
10:46 pmPatrol support7 min9513cf62
11:16 pmPatrol support10 minae169b2e

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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