drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:38 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:52 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 21 times on Friday 19 June 2026, the first at 12:38 am and the last at 11:52 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

21 drawable flights of 21. 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

Search38%
Traffic and crashes29%
Patrol support19%
Other10%
Assisting another agency5%

Flights, in order

21 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)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
12:38 am	Other	4 min	`44415c2e`
9:17 am	Patrol support	11 min	`2b495168`
2:23 pm	Patrol support	9 min	`42fb7342`
3:09 pm	Patrol support	8 min	`48ba1566`
3:17 pm	Search	9 min	`b464e43d`
3:28 pm	Assisting another agency	20 min	`272555de`
3:36 pm	Traffic and crashes	5 min	`83dbad1d`
4:12 pm	Search	13 min	`62d17b9f`
8:12 pm	Search	6 min	`54ca5460`
8:19 pm	Traffic and crashes	6 min	`2477212e`
8:28 pm	Traffic and crashes	5 min	`a28a0a10`
8:35 pm	Other	11 min	`f12692f1`
9:17 pm	Search	17 min	`344e805d`
9:35 pm	Search	13 min	`c1bf9564`
9:50 pm	Traffic and crashes	3 min	`0b1d7c37`
10:39 pm	Traffic and crashes	3 min	`f7d6e23c`
10:54 pm	Patrol support	11 min	`3036d4fd`
10:59 pm	Search	12 min	`bfec7386`
11:13 pm	Traffic and crashes	4 min	`a586bcef`
11:28 pm	Search	19 min	`5e923420`
11:52 pm	Search	8 min	`48e3b64d`

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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