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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Tuesday 21 July 2026

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

40

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

6:09 am

first takeoff; the last was at 2:18 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 40 times on Tuesday 21 July 2026, the first at 6:09 am and the last at 2:18 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

40 drawable flights of 40. 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. Training and testing72%
  2. Search22%
  3. Patrol support2%
  4. Not stated2%

Flights, in order

40 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
6:09 amSearch4 min0a2b2d88
6:24 amSearch7 minbf5676de
7:39 amSearch6 mind2ef095d
7:54 amSearch1 min 48 s200601ae
8:01 amSearch9 min5f92e43f
8:08 amSearch19 mind8e96154
8:18 amSearch11 mina28d1db3
8:45 amTraining and testing1 min 40 s5b589a3a
8:57 amSearch10 min08fef731
9:12 amTraining and testing20 mine56afd36
9:12 amTraining and testing17 mineaea43b7
9:17 amTraining and testing17 min5baa7c3d
9:35 amTraining and testing5 min2e2e542a
9:44 amTraining and testing19 minab38a822
9:45 amTraining and testing19 minec8443b1
9:45 amTraining and testing10 mind1fa6d51
9:56 amTraining and testing14 mine8bb1ddd
10:13 amTraining and testing17 min31daf58d
10:25 amTraining and testing15 min9542ab10
10:27 amTraining and testing13 min4f101840
10:32 amTraining and testing17 min49e6c510
11:04 amTraining and testing16 minbadde844
11:05 amTraining and testing16 mine956cfa2
11:06 amTraining and testing15 min18e7fe98
11:09 amSearch11 min40147f21
11:37 amTraining and testing5 minb476a7ac
12:00 pmTraining and testing13 min385d2c87
12:04 pmTraining and testing43 s0a23f14b
12:05 pmTraining and testing1 min 03 s14e15d56
12:48 pmPatrol support7 minec67045e
1:29 pmTraining and testing17 min34ece553
1:32 pmTraining and testing54 s2401bb02
1:34 pmTraining and testing32 s6fe6654c
1:39 pmTraining and testing1 min 08 sef7a9088
1:41 pmTraining and testing2 minf9c8c311
1:50 pmTraining and testing7 mina97b4eba
1:53 pmTraining and testing10 min63061f45
1:54 pmTraining and testing10 mine71a8072
1:59 pmTraining and testing16 mindeb6f142
2:18 pmNot stated7 min63d3e8c4

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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