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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Thursday 6 August 2026

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

26

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

1:04 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:59 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 26 times on Thursday 6 August 2026, the first at 1:04 am and the last at 11:59 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

26 drawable flights of 26. 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. Search38%
  2. Call for service19%
  3. Patrol support15%
  4. Traffic and crashes12%
  5. Assisting another agency12%
  6. Other4%

Flights, in order

26 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
1:04 amPatrol support18 min492ed3d9
1:24 amPatrol support4 min9fe09e09
1:25 pmOther11 min04c17bf3
2:11 pmSearch4 min200c9577
3:13 pmPatrol support8 min96814022
3:22 pmPatrol support8 minb32d666f
3:33 pmSearch12 min2180beae
3:48 pmSearch3 min5085f5b6
4:21 pmTraffic and crashes4 mind8f86752
4:58 pmAssisting another agency14 min0c90f4eb
5:42 pmSearch17 mind1c17e27
5:53 pmSearch16 min96307ab4
6:17 pmCall for service9 minf7823f63
6:33 pmSearch5 min68ded630
6:48 pmSearch10 min2d15934a
7:28 pmCall for service6 min9a8e9473
8:00 pmSearch20 min3eb7993c
8:32 pmAssisting another agency4 min12593d4b
8:44 pmSearch17 minf643c4f0
9:01 pmTraffic and crashes6 min943beda3
9:27 pmCall for service6 min888a65ef
9:54 pmCall for service12 minfd83c000
10:35 pmCall for service7 min9d4418e2
10:41 pmTraffic and crashes8 mine9fd48d7
11:17 pmAssisting another agency17 min044f451b
11:59 pmSearch15 min82a783ef

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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