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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Thursday 18 June 2026

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

30

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:46 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:52 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 30 times on Thursday 18 June 2026, the first at 12:46 am and the last at 10:52 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

30 drawable flights of 30. 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. Patrol support30%
  3. Traffic and crashes10%
  4. Other10%
  5. Training and testing7%
  6. Assisting another agency7%
  7. Call for service3%

Flights, in order

30 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
12:46 amPatrol support8 min1f502199
1:19 amTraining and testing13 min56230d70
1:33 amTraining and testing5 min8cde9349
2:21 amSearch14 mindf08692f
3:24 amSearch14 minf3ff13d9
8:04 amPatrol support9 min25413bcc
8:21 amTraffic and crashes11 min157879c7
8:57 amPatrol support11 min52c4c332
10:07 amPatrol support6 min635612eb
10:37 amPatrol support11 min3f7df070
10:54 amPatrol support11 min34569f7b
12:24 pmPatrol support8 min551e02f4
12:39 pmAssisting another agency9 min5fe4a21d
12:55 pmSearch8 min32e798d4
1:53 pmSearch15 minbf4bad18
2:07 pmOther11 mincaa04f1d
2:13 pmOther14 mincae2ebc2
3:06 pmAssisting another agency10 minae3d1c3d
3:13 pmPatrol support8 min67c131f2
3:30 pmSearch10 min883062bb
3:57 pmSearch4 min0caf5ece
4:41 pmSearch5 mineede6b23
4:58 pmSearch6 minec287b86
5:21 pmPatrol support3 min42cd97c4
5:24 pmSearch9 min72494432
6:15 pmTraffic and crashes9 mincc2dffa9
7:11 pmSearch14 min67cabd7f
8:50 pmOther8 minfd4d0176
9:00 pmTraffic and crashes7 min499cddbf
10:52 pmCall for service8 min5176273d

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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