8
drone flights over Dearborn that day.
4:09 am
first takeoff; the last was at 11:46 pm.
7 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Dearborn police drones flew 8 times on Friday 21 August 2026, the first at 4:09 am and the last at 11:46 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, EDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
8 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) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4:09 am | Patrol support | 11 min | a91390d8 |
| 12:27 pm | Traffic and crashes | 5 min | 1e0fd981 |
| 12:34 pm | Search | 8 min | 3cbc6728 |
| 1:52 pm | Traffic and crashes | 4 min | 3e0ff808 |
| 2:52 pm | Traffic and crashes | 9 min | c6846c54 |
| 3:33 pm | Traffic and crashes | 3 min | 18149f3b |
| 4:21 pm | Traffic and crashes | 5 min | e536d67b |
| 11:46 pm | Patrol support | 11 min | 4a00e339 |
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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