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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Wednesday 1 July 2026

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

42

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:17 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:05 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 42 times on Wednesday 1 July 2026, the first at 12:17 am and the last at 11:05 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

42 drawable flights of 42. 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. Search45%
  2. Patrol support24%
  3. Traffic and crashes14%
  4. Call for service5%
  5. Other5%
  6. Assisting another agency5%
  7. Training and testing2%

Flights, in order

42 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
12:17 amPatrol support4 min9790f919
12:28 amCall for service10 min3e437f15
2:38 amSearch19 min6ed83cf3
2:58 amPatrol support21 minb5cb0863
5:56 amSearch9 min40e4395a
7:25 amPatrol support3 mindd1b6211
7:37 amTraffic and crashes6 min98264afa
7:45 amSearch17 minefc1fcfa
8:15 amSearch19 minee643b46
8:29 amSearch17 min97a170bb
9:00 amSearch1 min 14 sc0de3e85
9:02 amSearch11 min514213be
9:20 amOther12 mina7721c7b
9:39 amSearch18 min6afd0d17
9:54 amSearch17 mine7202d60
10:42 amPatrol support12 min24a6c3e2
11:00 amAssisting another agency10 mindca69811
11:29 amPatrol support9 min5608a377
12:13 pmPatrol support4 min7d68543c
12:51 pmPatrol support8 minaed0ee6a
1:05 pmPatrol support13 min0a192635
1:14 pmSearch9 min3e3f81c7
1:31 pmPatrol support8 min7b03b66b
2:01 pmSearch9 min35167218
2:26 pmTraffic and crashes7 min3a84f933
2:52 pmTraffic and crashes5 min4664c368
3:02 pmOther7 mina7fa9c8e
3:24 pmTraffic and crashes10 mina33cd03c
3:46 pmSearch16 min825a3021
4:31 pmSearch6 minb12230e7
4:39 pmSearch9 min1013e9af
5:19 pmTraining and testing2 min4287a49d
5:21 pmSearch15 minb52bc2eb
6:40 pmSearch9 mind5ccad96
7:13 pmTraffic and crashes4 mina96c6897
8:07 pmAssisting another agency12 min2f0c168b
8:22 pmSearch11 minf05667d8
9:07 pmSearch18 min76243a57
9:35 pmPatrol support2 minbd4c78d4
10:05 pmSearch11 minb9bba094
10:18 pmCall for service8 mina2b7cda9
11:05 pmTraffic and crashes3 minffc5b75f

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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