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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Friday 7 August 2026

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

30

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

1:30 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:06 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 30 times on Friday 7 August 2026, the first at 1:30 am and the last at 9:06 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. Traffic and crashes23%
  3. Other10%
  4. Patrol support10%
  5. Assisting another agency7%
  6. Call for service3%
  7. 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
1:30 amSearch9 minfce3a1e4
1:48 amCall for service18 min8446e8a3
2:08 amTraffic and crashes11 minad43d64a
2:20 amOther7 minc72e2029
2:31 amOther10 min52866d45
3:21 amSearch12 min2bf27d6b
8:49 amTraining and testing10 mine69aec6e
12:19 pmPatrol support10 min1b44f725
12:37 pmSearch11 minb671695a
1:04 pmTraffic and crashes4 minbd7c7e83
1:26 pmSearch3 min122c43d9
2:47 pmPatrol support6 min9e20e474
2:52 pmSearch17 mine2897fd5
3:14 pmSearch7 mindd70b0a3
3:22 pmSearch6 minf4e95284
4:07 pmTraffic and crashes3 min1bd09063
4:18 pmOther11 minac70e5a7
4:51 pmAssisting another agency8 minad3da944
5:14 pmPatrol support8 minf151572a
5:14 pmTraffic and crashes3 min356f8669
5:41 pmAssisting another agency12 min0a2de9cf
5:47 pmTraffic and crashes4 mindea07c01
5:58 pmSearch19 min8ae7c02b
6:22 pmSearch9 mine292c738
7:03 pmSearch8 min1d4e7234
7:13 pmSearch8 minb5b337af
8:16 pmTraffic and crashes7 minb43c670f
8:32 pmSearch5 min4c9fbe45
8:47 pmSearch19 min39971159
9:06 pmTraffic and crashes10 mina15be4b5

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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