CityDroneWatch
  1. CityDroneWatch
  2. Michigan
  3. Dearborn
  4. June 2026
  5. 17

Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Wednesday 17 June 2026

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

27

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:56 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:31 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 27 times on Wednesday 17 June 2026, the first at 12:56 am and the last at 10:31 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

27 drawable flights of 27. 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. Search33%
  2. Traffic and crashes26%
  3. Training and testing15%
  4. Call for service11%
  5. Patrol support7%
  6. Other7%

Flights, in order

27 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
12:56 amSearch18 mind26e52c9
2:00 amSearch18 minc1288ab4
3:50 amSearch7 min64e4e91c
6:31 amSearch6 minc1c1fe60
7:37 amPatrol support14 minb0ced054
7:52 amTraffic and crashes7 minb435679c
8:06 amTraffic and crashes5 min4ee1403f
8:17 amTraining and testing4 min962efc86
8:51 amTraffic and crashes4 minf289d0d6
10:02 amSearch9 min8a7ba53a
10:25 amTraffic and crashes7 min08a0b0b5
10:55 amTraffic and crashes9 mine1cc1af8
11:13 amCall for service3 min6c280eac
11:16 amTraffic and crashes4 min7d72021e
11:28 amCall for service11 mind9eb19d2
12:38 pmCall for service4 min45dd910f
12:55 pmTraining and testing5 min499a2aab
1:07 pmSearch8 mind38d4157
1:16 pmOther5 min23b02eb2
1:36 pmTraining and testing5 minf99fdfd8
1:49 pmPatrol support7 min76b3158b
2:24 pmSearch9 minae455055
2:32 pmSearch14 min7725dd62
2:51 pmOther10 min2d97000f
3:09 pmTraffic and crashes6 min1a5d0754
10:23 pmTraining and testing7 min17b4d531
10:31 pmSearch11 min9f64442f

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.

Corrections and questions: see the about page. See about this site for the sources and the publication rules.