drone flights over Dearborn that day.

6:32 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:31 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 14 times on Monday 27 July 2026, the first at 6:32 am and the last at 11:31 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

14 drawable flights of 14. 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

Assisting another agency21%
Traffic and crashes21%
Search21%
Patrol support21%
Training and testing7%
Other7%

Flights, in order

14 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)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
6:32 am	Assisting another agency	20 min	`4d0bd767`
6:49 am	Assisting another agency	19 min	`83eed395`
7:36 am	Assisting another agency	10 min	`965b5d7a`
8:17 am	Traffic and crashes	5 min	`21f827ad`
8:35 am	Search	8 min	`c921d0ca`
9:05 am	Traffic and crashes	11 min	`2a84dc5c`
9:17 am	Training and testing	1 min 31 s	`57fe139b`
10:45 am	Search	7 min	`886585f6`
11:15 am	Patrol support	3 min	`8eee059b`
11:35 am	Other	18 min	`05354025`
12:08 pm	Patrol support	6 min	`ee06ba54`
3:08 pm	Search	15 min	`066d1c2b`
4:10 pm	Traffic and crashes	9 min	`37c0c9d4`
11:31 pm	Patrol support	19 min	`7315ab42`

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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