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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Friday 31 July 2026

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

25

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:44 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:17 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 25 times on Friday 31 July 2026, the first at 12:44 am and the last at 11:17 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

25 drawable flights of 25. 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. Search52%
  2. Patrol support24%
  3. Training and testing8%
  4. Not stated4%
  5. Assisting another agency4%
  6. Traffic and crashes4%
  7. Call for service4%

Flights, in order

25 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
12:44 amPatrol support9 min91f7d7b4
1:34 amPatrol support11 min138ce356
1:47 amSearch9 minf43794f5
2:03 amSearch17 min38056324
4:21 amSearch18 min72e5bdca
5:54 amNot stated20 min4f06fc65
9:15 amPatrol support13 min89a4652f
10:17 amPatrol support5 min17b94e62
12:13 pmAssisting another agency8 mine9ae3e57
12:41 pmTraining and testing50 s5fc3bf2b
12:41 pmTraining and testing1 min 05 s89a1c389
1:10 pmPatrol support6 minf20223bb
3:21 pmSearch6 mince7339e3
3:27 pmSearch17 minbdb1025e
4:17 pmSearch11 min4a1226cc
4:29 pmSearch9 min80bfb077
4:41 pmSearch6 minf44bf3f0
4:54 pmSearch9 min3dfa820d
5:45 pmSearch9 mine5400d3c
8:48 pmSearch17 min685d3779
10:07 pmTraffic and crashes4 min5a00d915
11:00 pmPatrol support7 min31089339
11:08 pmSearch3 minbf5c05d3
11:11 pmSearch3 minbc8fc5f5
11:17 pmCall for service6 min2cea4eee

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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