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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Wednesday 29 July 2026

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

20

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

1:53 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:26 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 20 times on Wednesday 29 July 2026, the first at 1:53 am and the last at 7:26 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

20 drawable flights of 20. 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. Patrol support30%
  2. Search25%
  3. Traffic and crashes15%
  4. Call for service15%
  5. Training and testing10%
  6. Not stated5%

Flights, in order

20 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
1:53 amPatrol support9 min5b68ee3e
2:40 amSearch8 min62d2912d
6:59 amTraffic and crashes7 min44531d38
7:31 amCall for service13 min47e8d6b5
7:47 amCall for service4 min37371d30
8:01 amPatrol support18 min923062e7
8:11 amTraining and testing3 min7edcf195
8:15 amTraining and testing41 sd3b333de
8:17 amPatrol support10 min94ece3dc
8:25 amTraffic and crashes4 min67d12414
8:57 amNot stated17 mineb6430d6
9:32 amTraffic and crashes7 minfbe1d8e1
9:56 amSearch11 mineca48306
10:19 amCall for service10 min6a2ac18a
10:37 amSearch5 min1b7b5bfd
10:44 amPatrol support5 min4c9736ef
11:50 amPatrol support9 min82a071c6
12:30 pmPatrol support10 min5941e85d
6:08 pmSearch11 min5a721751
7:26 pmSearch16 min2513578c

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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