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  4. May 2026
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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Thursday 28 May 2026

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

36

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:47 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:22 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 36 times on Thursday 28 May 2026, the first at 12:47 am and the last at 11:22 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

36 drawable flights of 36. 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. Search56%
  2. Patrol support19%
  3. Not stated8%
  4. Assisting another agency6%
  5. Call for service6%
  6. Training and testing3%
  7. Traffic and crashes3%

Flights, in order

36 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
12:47 amPatrol support15 minb4982502
1:20 amAssisting another agency7 min30ff2e3a
8:19 amPatrol support3 minf80c7940
8:34 amSearch6 min6a752f4f
9:33 amTraining and testing5 min2a780f6c
9:40 amSearch13 min70e70141
9:59 amSearch10 mina7e99478
10:11 amPatrol support9 mina6bb5f25
11:01 amNot stated4 minc43c8c2f
11:08 amNot stated4 min2613b0ed
11:17 amNot stated13 minf088fc9b
12:30 pmSearch3 min39b6b690
12:43 pmPatrol support8 minab4e45a1
2:22 pmSearch14 mine650fad0
3:02 pmSearch7 minc1491ebc
3:55 pmSearch14 minb29cdaf8
4:34 pmSearch10 mina3fc97e7
4:50 pmSearch7 min16f05177
5:04 pmSearch14 min6502f09f
5:20 pmSearch8 min2237a28c
5:33 pmSearch15 min052c287a
6:10 pmAssisting another agency2 min414a6ada
6:14 pmSearch10 mind398d9cb
6:40 pmSearch5 min75f95daa
7:02 pmCall for service8 min518397d7
7:25 pmSearch3 min9c53299d
7:34 pmSearch5 minb8a83647
7:59 pmPatrol support9 mina8104045
8:23 pmPatrol support11 minffed9cb4
8:55 pmPatrol support9 min312da873
9:07 pmSearch7 min06a555d5
9:49 pmSearch17 min3fa406f2
10:23 pmTraffic and crashes10 minee39167b
10:44 pmSearch6 min85df1cef
11:08 pmSearch11 minfca498df
11:22 pmCall for service9 minc28439c1

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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