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  4. May 2026
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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Tuesday 26 May 2026

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

34

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:36 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:57 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 34 times on Tuesday 26 May 2026, the first at 12:36 am and the last at 8:57 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

34 drawable flights of 34. 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. Search56%
  2. Patrol support26%
  3. Traffic and crashes12%
  4. Assisting another agency3%
  5. Other3%

Flights, in order

34 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
12:36 amPatrol support12 min9e738868
12:55 amPatrol support18 minfc9f86ce
2:45 amPatrol support10 min5f210594
3:23 amPatrol support7 min6c541d28
7:13 amSearch8 min2426df44
7:25 amTraffic and crashes7 minc8167b34
8:40 amTraffic and crashes4 min03b6a4ce
9:12 amTraffic and crashes5 min38a6e474
9:17 amPatrol support13 mine103abd0
9:57 amPatrol support19 min953b84d8
10:07 amPatrol support5 min258a33b1
11:35 amTraffic and crashes7 minf891da06
11:41 amPatrol support7 min427c8a43
11:56 amSearch12 min2314ca07
12:28 pmSearch14 mind6ca085c
1:37 pmAssisting another agency10 min94c39869
1:55 pmSearch6 minea020d9a
2:17 pmSearch12 min5365d0e7
3:15 pmSearch6 min51a1eed7
3:21 pmSearch6 min27e9a0eb
3:32 pmSearch6 minb2af758e
3:40 pmSearch14 min1f58c0a7
3:50 pmSearch7 min110a9255
4:09 pmSearch14 min865fb214
4:32 pmOther3 min68133a77
4:47 pmSearch4 min46da3bce
5:03 pmSearch10 min80d7f3f9
5:22 pmSearch19 minb9634911
5:57 pmSearch18 min677ffddd
6:34 pmSearch18 minf6b44261
6:56 pmSearch11 min00923f8d
7:25 pmSearch5 min4b690378
8:09 pmSearch5 min66a9ad52
8:57 pmPatrol support6 min5c04a467

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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