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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Monday 20 July 2026

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

26

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:43 am

first takeoff; the last was at 6:43 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 26 times on Monday 20 July 2026, the first at 12:43 am and the last at 6:43 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 support35%
  2. Search35%
  3. Traffic and crashes15%
  4. Assisting another agency12%
  5. Training and testing4%

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
12:43 amPatrol support6 mindf501811
2:39 amPatrol support7 min59612ffe
2:49 amPatrol support14 min9ac429ff
3:56 amAssisting another agency7 minf41d66f3
6:25 amAssisting another agency7 min5d3f0c72
6:26 amSearch8 min8f8e9a19
7:28 amPatrol support6 mine5472d98
7:56 amPatrol support5 min23a2042a
7:59 amPatrol support12 min20bc22a5
8:38 amTraffic and crashes5 minc2deec69
9:39 amPatrol support6 min10a14c69
10:06 amSearch12 mina3a60928
10:36 amTraining and testing6 min2bacf29d
10:45 amPatrol support16 min0410d67e
12:07 pmTraffic and crashes4 minedb053b4
12:24 pmPatrol support8 minede9491d
2:23 pmTraffic and crashes3 min08a9b950
2:24 pmSearch9 min4c9cfe99
3:14 pmSearch4 min9b96d8c8
3:39 pmSearch7 minfe72ff4e
3:44 pmSearch17 mine8a646bc
4:17 pmSearch4 min85ab6a39
4:59 pmSearch12 minf4fd1ed4
5:26 pmTraffic and crashes6 minab8b532c
5:54 pmSearch17 minfde10156
6:43 pmAssisting another agency12 mind4cf3b8f

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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