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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Saturday 8 August 2026

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

36

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:01 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:37 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 36 times on Saturday 8 August 2026, the first at 12:01 am and the last at 11:37 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

36 drawable flights of 36. 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. Search47%
  2. Patrol support19%
  3. Traffic and crashes11%
  4. Training and testing6%
  5. Other6%
  6. Call for service6%
  7. Assisting another agency6%

Flights, in order

36 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
12:01 amTraining and testing8 min3b561be1
12:32 amPatrol support16 min31624fb2
3:56 amPatrol support7 min10be58d1
4:21 amPatrol support1 min 16 s673b1b03
7:28 amSearch8 min5b45c428
8:13 amSearch12 min48f8d13f
9:18 amPatrol support11 minbc876c04
9:52 amSearch12 min1590cdf2
10:28 amSearch7 min42136f2e
11:16 amPatrol support10 minb7b58c8b
11:28 amOther6 min59ef8dc2
11:36 amSearch3 mine41b131d
11:49 amPatrol support8 min691458d1
11:54 amTraffic and crashes9 min68623e35
12:12 pmSearch9 minc527e2e1
12:22 pmSearch8 min3362712f
12:38 pmTraffic and crashes6 min2cd387b2
12:46 pmSearch4 min853f1e0e
12:55 pmSearch8 mind4bb4e5e
1:20 pmPatrol support17 minbbd55a30
1:25 pmOther16 min3400f233
4:14 pmTraffic and crashes6 min99d3f3c9
4:25 pmSearch16 min3fc333ac
5:30 pmTraining and testing1 min 02 se238ef33
5:45 pmSearch15 min0b195146
6:02 pmSearch9 min2d1557d8
6:54 pmCall for service1 min 54 s2bb65d4f
7:17 pmAssisting another agency13 min4ec90c0f
8:40 pmSearch17 mincc13f917
9:10 pmSearch14 min495cb0c3
9:41 pmAssisting another agency16 min030f6f35
10:00 pmSearch11 min39413c62
10:13 pmSearch12 minb8c0e826
10:24 pmSearch7 minf6dacc13
11:09 pmCall for service6 minad449b93
11:37 pmTraffic and crashes4 min9e59cd8c

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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