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  4. July 2026
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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Tuesday 28 July 2026

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

26

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:18 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:33 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 26 times on Tuesday 28 July 2026, the first at 12:18 am and the last at 11:33 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. Search62%
  2. Patrol support15%
  3. Traffic and crashes12%
  4. Training and testing8%
  5. Call for service4%

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
12:18 amPatrol support6 min06ac8f77
12:49 amSearch5 min45d70ebb
2:00 amSearch13 min37fc139a
7:45 amSearch18 min729daad0
7:56 amSearch13 minc237f3f8
8:46 amSearch7 minbacb9e29
9:29 amPatrol support4 min29256e69
10:15 amPatrol support3 min8ae00b77
10:31 amSearch8 mine5c0dc99
10:46 amSearch7 min2d7a023d
11:42 amSearch6 min89e81153
12:30 pmSearch14 min7238c062
12:42 pmSearch6 min6955292d
12:49 pmTraffic and crashes5 minc9f8668e
1:16 pmPatrol support5 min66655f44
1:38 pmSearch14 minae1d8a55
3:02 pmSearch15 min5ad232ce
4:20 pmTraining and testing7 min8b8dc395
4:31 pmCall for service6 min31f23499
4:37 pmTraffic and crashes4 min4027199b
5:10 pmSearch17 minf2da4c75
6:59 pmSearch15 mind52ed585
7:25 pmSearch13 min0831e324
7:44 pmTraffic and crashes9 minccb8e3e9
10:58 pmSearch10 mine612f2e3
11:33 pmTraining and testing1 min 50 s3e9a6ca8

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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