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  4. May 2026
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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Friday 29 May 2026

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

25

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:15 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:54 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 25 times on Friday 29 May 2026, the first at 12:15 am and the last at 11:54 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

25 drawable flights of 25. 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 support52%
  2. Call for service28%
  3. Search12%
  4. Training and testing4%
  5. Traffic and crashes4%

Flights, in order

25 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
12:15 amCall for service8 minaf3a2836
12:24 amCall for service17 min8cc18213
2:08 amPatrol support6 min39fbab78
2:27 amCall for service16 minbffc315b
3:24 amPatrol support9 min0fc16ffd
8:38 amTraining and testing5 min5b772e6f
9:33 amCall for service11 min5cfe307a
9:46 amSearch14 minb567973f
10:00 amSearch14 min03b1b412
10:15 amSearch12 min543c3c80
11:16 amCall for service9 min57f926cc
11:27 amCall for service11 min7cd7d6ff
11:57 amTraffic and crashes6 min3b4903d6
12:05 pmPatrol support6 minba40827f
12:37 pmPatrol support19 min1337832e
12:57 pmCall for service7 min36a1d009
1:14 pmPatrol support7 min6614e268
8:12 pmPatrol support10 minc38434eb
8:34 pmPatrol support7 minc2cbb3af
8:53 pmPatrol support8 min55152509
9:16 pmPatrol support5 min56b29abb
9:24 pmPatrol support5 min049f7a4f
10:42 pmPatrol support9 mind4e0737a
11:05 pmPatrol support11 min05be203f
11:54 pmPatrol support12 minc0c628dd

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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