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  4. August 2026
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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Sunday 9 August 2026

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

24

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

1:23 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:57 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 24 times on Sunday 9 August 2026, the first at 1:23 am and the last at 9:57 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

24 drawable flights of 24. 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. Search46%
  2. Traffic and crashes29%
  3. Patrol support25%

Flights, in order

24 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
1:23 amPatrol support10 minba5c183e
6:01 amTraffic and crashes6 minefba3796
6:25 amSearch4 min5b5a2133
6:56 amTraffic and crashes5 minf015490a
7:09 amTraffic and crashes5 minfa57bf22
7:23 amSearch11 min5ead95f3
8:45 amPatrol support12 min53f5bfa7
9:07 amSearch12 min1667f7b4
11:25 amPatrol support15 min65e0b1e8
11:47 amPatrol support18 mind21f9009
12:12 pmSearch13 min9e50ea50
1:01 pmTraffic and crashes4 minf378a496
1:20 pmPatrol support19 min2c55cdb7
3:56 pmSearch16 mind33927d9
4:15 pmTraffic and crashes3 minfd312bfe
4:23 pmSearch17 minbe8d06f2
5:04 pmSearch14 min78fbdbf9
5:21 pmSearch13 min63350081
6:36 pmPatrol support18 minfdf52741
6:57 pmTraffic and crashes7 min1e9fc4e6
7:38 pmSearch12 min909408ec
8:39 pmSearch8 min6bfe24c5
9:21 pmTraffic and crashes9 minf554a682
9:57 pmSearch15 minb83d0257

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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