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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Wednesday 8 July 2026

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

30

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

6:40 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:29 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 30 times on Wednesday 8 July 2026, the first at 6:40 am and the last at 11:29 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. Patrol support40%
  2. Search33%
  3. Traffic and crashes13%
  4. Other10%
  5. 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
6:40 amPatrol support12 min1617276b
9:04 amSearch10 mindac179fe
10:24 amTraffic and crashes4 min2007e6bb
10:28 amOther9 min47acf2dc
11:00 amPatrol support7 minc8b6db26
12:21 pmSearch5 minfdc9490f
12:33 pmSearch8 min1da6efcd
12:51 pmSearch15 minbfeb7752
1:11 pmSearch8 min519cf520
3:53 pmSearch6 min1d46c8ee
4:13 pmSearch17 min5daccbf9
4:23 pmSearch12 mincf762a29
5:16 pmTraffic and crashes5 min48a1b26c
5:19 pmPatrol support7 min8ac226d4
5:23 pmSearch12 min605c7b76
5:26 pmTraffic and crashes15 minb63bc907
6:02 pmTraffic and crashes4 min83ae0c6f
6:23 pmCall for service5 min8215954e
6:37 pmSearch7 mind88b00c4
6:46 pmOther5 min469636ce
7:19 pmPatrol support11 min61438403
8:25 pmPatrol support6 min5d7f67e9
8:33 pmPatrol support7 min03c23376
8:52 pmPatrol support6 min3eebc121
8:59 pmOther1 min 37 s2a733ebf
9:49 pmPatrol support7 min4fe91856
9:59 pmPatrol support9 min0da78008
10:09 pmPatrol support7 minc92aa355
10:44 pmPatrol support15 mina0c9d3e0
11:29 pmPatrol support15 min6037586f

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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