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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Tuesday 7 July 2026

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

26

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:32 am

first takeoff; the last was at 5:00 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 26 times on Tuesday 7 July 2026, the first at 12:32 am and the last at 5:00 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

26 drawable flights of 26. 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. Search46%
  2. Traffic and crashes27%
  3. Patrol support12%
  4. Call for service4%
  5. Training and testing4%
  6. Other4%
  7. Not stated4%

Flights, in order

26 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
12:32 amTraffic and crashes9 min550ae28a
1:01 amCall for service17 min27823121
6:06 amPatrol support5 mina39cadc2
6:16 amTraining and testing3 mine8a40a5f
6:37 amTraffic and crashes7 minb1bab335
6:57 amTraffic and crashes5 min8ce72ede
7:23 amOther9 min2a03227f
7:33 amTraffic and crashes10 min5fd92a06
8:07 amSearch8 min4f32ef8c
8:22 amSearch6 minc747dca0
8:49 amSearch21 minec9149f6
10:20 amPatrol support18 min0b9570ea
11:39 amTraffic and crashes5 min840659f0
11:48 amPatrol support5 minb4a57678
12:07 pmSearch6 mind239f542
12:23 pmSearch8 mina9957564
12:29 pmSearch10 min7713af2a
12:48 pmSearch6 min52228160
1:33 pmSearch9 minf665bd7a
1:40 pmSearch16 min42ccfb3d
2:08 pmNot stated16 min20741870
3:24 pmTraffic and crashes5 min3cd9c12a
3:34 pmTraffic and crashes12 min18a92c85
3:46 pmSearch7 min436d75b0
4:11 pmSearch16 min0474b8c6
5:00 pmSearch8 min86fdf2b9

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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