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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Tuesday 4 August 2026

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

23

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

5:55 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:14 pm.

6 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 23 times on Tuesday 4 August 2026, the first at 5:55 am and the last at 9:14 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

23 drawable flights of 23. 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. Search35%
  2. Patrol support35%
  3. Traffic and crashes22%
  4. Other4%
  5. Training and testing4%

Flights, in order

23 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
5:55 amSearch8 min0218a3aa
6:11 amPatrol support3 min741d705f
6:24 amSearch9 min441b47e3
7:27 amPatrol support19 min47bcf8b8
8:10 amTraffic and crashes5 min5b1f5eb2
8:20 amPatrol support8 min12c55927
8:57 amTraffic and crashes6 min00972083
8:58 amPatrol support2 minb00239af
9:03 amTraffic and crashes6 mina276ab46
9:10 amPatrol support6 min71769b86
9:15 amPatrol support5 min66836f28
9:26 amTraffic and crashes6 min63869140
9:55 amSearch14 min20172140
10:10 amSearch20 min3ca546d9
10:21 amSearch3 minbc87d573
10:47 amSearch19 min59210b1a
11:09 amOther14 mina6cebaf1
1:01 pmTraffic and crashes7 minac8681c6
1:22 pmSearch6 minfffdbcc0
1:34 pmSearch13 min7cd401b1
8:38 pmPatrol support4 min8a03af6c
8:49 pmPatrol support4 min3a9a3299
9:14 pmTraining and testing1 min 12 s813c0f45

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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