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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Thursday 9 July 2026

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

26

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:41 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:23 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 26 times on Thursday 9 July 2026, the first at 12:41 am and the last at 10:23 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. Patrol support50%
  2. Search31%
  3. Training and testing8%
  4. Assisting another agency4%
  5. Call for service4%
  6. Traffic and crashes4%

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
12:41 amPatrol support12 min1eae5223
2:07 amPatrol support7 min106d38c4
9:40 amTraining and testing17 min95d84315
11:21 amPatrol support13 mind629b3a1
12:24 pmTraining and testing1 min 14 s922cfa46
1:00 pmPatrol support9 mindd47b755
1:06 pmPatrol support10 min79b96268
1:56 pmAssisting another agency17 minc39b1eab
2:26 pmSearch6 min9aec993f
2:35 pmSearch8 min31185d50
4:09 pmPatrol support13 mine4610aff
6:08 pmPatrol support11 min812c2ee7
6:12 pmSearch7 mine4d8a329
6:26 pmSearch11 minf02b27f2
6:30 pmSearch15 mine191989c
7:03 pmSearch5 min845b8603
7:13 pmSearch5 min554ddad6
7:25 pmSearch8 minebd2d8d7
7:46 pmCall for service11 min35b92449
7:57 pmTraffic and crashes18 min3eed3255
8:44 pmPatrol support6 min307fdb94
8:52 pmPatrol support12 mindc9fa80b
9:10 pmPatrol support9 min7ba53abc
9:26 pmPatrol support12 min176852b8
9:59 pmPatrol support5 min3d63828b
10:23 pmPatrol support17 min58885dd5

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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