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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Wednesday 5 August 2026

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

30

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:43 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:51 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 30 times on Wednesday 5 August 2026, the first at 12:43 am and the last at 11:51 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

30 drawable flights of 30. 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. Search43%
  2. Patrol support37%
  3. Traffic and crashes17%
  4. Training and testing3%

Flights, in order

30 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
12:43 amPatrol support12 mincdd5bf72
12:59 amPatrol support11 min0d266c24
1:33 amPatrol support6 minf64a5abe
7:05 amSearch7 min9f89682b
8:30 amPatrol support8 min28fabd52
9:11 amTraffic and crashes4 mind72aba60
9:38 amPatrol support10 min51238275
10:33 amPatrol support9 min565a5c3e
10:37 amTraining and testing8 min4708399c
11:32 amPatrol support13 mine9b9c063
12:15 pmPatrol support10 min7c35fa59
12:15 pmPatrol support7 min9ace8d58
12:31 pmSearch2 min1125c50b
12:34 pmSearch12 min9e1f3ff0
12:56 pmPatrol support6 min1466d5f1
1:11 pmSearch16 mine53c5728
2:07 pmSearch11 min0e2c4f1e
2:09 pmTraffic and crashes4 min3567a380
2:14 pmSearch6 minfad6d41d
2:44 pmSearch17 minc9bb31f7
5:28 pmTraffic and crashes6 mine476e859
5:52 pmSearch7 min7fe29606
6:19 pmSearch14 min6c0db220
6:36 pmTraffic and crashes8 mina13f4ecd
6:52 pmSearch11 min2e4216d8
7:21 pmSearch17 min77089d55
7:28 pmSearch15 minda5d8ec4
7:42 pmTraffic and crashes3 minc1df2ec4
10:43 pmSearch11 min02808d4f
11:51 pmPatrol support10 min5dee0927

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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