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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Saturday 18 July 2026

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

43

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

1:25 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:54 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 43 times on Saturday 18 July 2026, the first at 1:25 am and the last at 11:54 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

43 drawable flights of 43. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Search40%
  2. Patrol support26%
  3. Other12%
  4. Traffic and crashes12%
  5. Call for service9%
  6. Assisting another agency2%

Flights, in order

43 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
1:25 amPatrol support11 min76709084
6:15 amPatrol support6 min6a77367b
6:36 amOther11 min7fc57bd8
6:54 amPatrol support5 min0d4f6fd5
6:57 amCall for service7 minf13ea55d
7:02 amTraffic and crashes5 min661b5c53
8:31 amPatrol support8 minf5334d32
8:44 amOther5 min0e0fc9e8
10:49 amSearch8 minb1b4174e
11:14 amOther14 min2d2ad0bc
11:47 amPatrol support16 min96521f1a
12:01 pmSearch15 min75a70c0a
12:57 pmPatrol support10 minda5e7355
2:19 pmTraffic and crashes7 min13cf0445
2:34 pmTraffic and crashes6 minc41e276a
2:48 pmSearch16 min077e2b4a
3:14 pmSearch4 min0189a8a4
3:33 pmSearch10 mindcb206ef
3:43 pmSearch20 min9dc87673
3:57 pmSearch17 min35858020
4:07 pmSearch15 min6c2b0345
4:16 pmSearch3 min1ffea7cc
4:37 pmSearch16 min3325c226
5:09 pmCall for service8 minac14ea71
5:38 pmTraffic and crashes7 minc38de08e
5:54 pmSearch9 mine7244465
6:05 pmSearch7 minc67bdc9d
6:16 pmSearch4 min172f746e
6:25 pmSearch16 minaa75988f
6:45 pmOther2 mine56376f6
7:01 pmAssisting another agency7 min65c8f6c6
7:11 pmSearch20 mincac9e85a
7:38 pmSearch1 min 51 sdb2538b6
7:45 pmTraffic and crashes5 min3d48fa15
8:05 pmSearch8 min6791391b
9:04 pmPatrol support7 min6ec0c4ca
9:38 pmCall for service5 min083b9bdf
9:44 pmCall for service5 mincde33c2a
10:26 pmPatrol support10 minf9a72f6c
10:45 pmPatrol support16 minc8345a57
11:01 pmOther5 min8b64d6bb
11:18 pmPatrol support15 min13778613
11:54 pmPatrol support11 min2a219869

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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