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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Monday 3 August 2026

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

35

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:49 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:55 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 35 times on Monday 3 August 2026, the first at 12:49 am and the last at 8:55 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

35 drawable flights of 35. 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. Search46%
  2. Patrol support26%
  3. Traffic and crashes14%
  4. Call for service9%
  5. Assisting another agency3%
  6. Other3%

Flights, in order

35 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
12:49 amSearch10 min4b7b2486
1:49 amPatrol support13 min4a8a15c4
3:10 amSearch8 min3ea24893
4:01 amSearch13 min0d970c71
7:11 amPatrol support8 min3e43eb7c
7:54 amSearch7 min688ca81a
7:58 amSearch18 minde03a423
8:10 amSearch21 min0a1868ee
8:28 amSearch13 min73c2bf3a
9:17 amTraffic and crashes8 min24bbb22f
9:35 amPatrol support6 mind4c91c2f
10:00 amCall for service11 mind6b7cfbb
10:17 amTraffic and crashes6 min4b7cc81c
10:25 amPatrol support6 min00975698
10:37 amPatrol support5 min823197b4
10:48 amAssisting another agency5 min569452fc
10:57 amCall for service9 min1a7cea3d
11:38 amSearch5 mina6610333
11:42 amTraffic and crashes6 minb2a45880
12:47 pmSearch21 minc2bde1e6
1:09 pmTraffic and crashes8 minb4c93478
1:19 pmTraffic and crashes6 mina4b42b67
3:29 pmSearch15 mina9c705c9
5:09 pmSearch11 min8186c49d
5:32 pmCall for service7 min956e88fb
5:44 pmSearch5 minc2c2e135
6:23 pmSearch15 min45060d1e
6:39 pmOther18 min139757e9
6:41 pmSearch12 min8d718246
7:12 pmSearch15 min791723a4
7:29 pmSearch6 min990ad65d
8:37 pmPatrol support58 s90eca4d9
8:39 pmPatrol support59 s0a1026de
8:53 pmPatrol support1 min 18 s5941953a
8:55 pmPatrol support13 mincd352be1

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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