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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Tuesday 18 August 2026

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

36

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:09 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 11:21 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 36 times on Tuesday 18 August 2026, the first at 12:09 pm and the last at 11:21 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Patrol support69%
  2. Training and testing14%
  3. Search11%
  4. Call for service3%
  5. Other3%

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
12:09 pmTraining and testing20 min393a495b
12:13 pmTraining and testing7 minf1715aee
12:16 pmPatrol support14 min999bcb18
12:42 pmTraining and testing12 min1d30dd38
1:10 pmPatrol support9 mindf42eb8a
1:59 pmSearch6 min11623edc
2:02 pmPatrol support5 minba089728
2:27 pmPatrol support22 minacadd8e7
3:28 pmPatrol support20 minc35d627a
4:04 pmSearch8 minff9d0e18
4:16 pmPatrol support16 min49c340ec
4:35 pmPatrol support16 min91281cc6
5:19 pmPatrol support22 minb3271a80
5:39 pmPatrol support11 min14e82c81
5:45 pmPatrol support23 minc1c106dd
5:57 pmPatrol support13 min3f45f8f7
6:33 pmTraining and testing51 sb82e07ed
6:34 pmTraining and testing42 s4ab6f7ad
6:47 pmPatrol support1 min 54 saa0399aa
6:59 pmPatrol support24 min295a8d29
7:05 pmPatrol support1 min 38 sa4d16342
7:24 pmPatrol support21 min3defec19
7:44 pmPatrol support6 min8072163f
7:48 pmPatrol support24 mincdc54a64
7:57 pmPatrol support4 min4c56004a
8:10 pmPatrol support10 mineb2c7b29
8:13 pmPatrol support23 minac819a6d
8:21 pmPatrol support14 minecccd50d
8:36 pmPatrol support4 minca3a5909
8:38 pmCall for service18 minc4e359f4
8:57 pmPatrol support20 min52aec5cd
9:20 pmPatrol support18 minf014e3fd
9:39 pmPatrol support8 mindb8ade53
10:21 pmSearch8 mina8847115
11:05 pmSearch10 min03fdbd42
11:21 pmOther3 mina22ccc51

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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