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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Sunday 2 August 2026

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

20

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:15 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 11:39 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 20 times on Sunday 2 August 2026, the first at 12:15 pm and the last at 11:39 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Patrol support45%
  2. Search25%
  3. Call for service15%
  4. Traffic and crashes10%
  5. Assisting another agency5%

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
12:15 pmPatrol support15 mine7a8b64c
1:38 pmPatrol support18 minf6f62661
2:07 pmPatrol support17 min0e82727d
2:23 pmPatrol support17 min1ebb8e2d
2:36 pmPatrol support17 min30807abf
2:49 pmPatrol support19 min91348012
3:07 pmPatrol support18 min8d9f71e0
3:20 pmPatrol support11 mine27d5bd1
5:01 pmSearch3 mine66725f6
5:40 pmSearch9 min9bab40d0
5:53 pmCall for service8 min85be7880
6:03 pmTraffic and crashes14 min44b3e245
6:27 pmCall for service6 min6cb022f3
6:34 pmCall for service19 min4e4e0bb2
7:07 pmAssisting another agency8 min3a23c9f7
8:41 pmTraffic and crashes8 min79eaf26a
9:20 pmPatrol support10 min663df6a7
10:32 pmSearch5 min5b972890
10:38 pmSearch14 minc0a51c99
11:39 pmSearch8 mind8fc81ee

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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