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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Monday 24 August 2026

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

25

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:13 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:48 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 25 times on Monday 24 August 2026, the first at 12:13 am and the last at 10:48 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

25 drawable flights of 25. 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. Traffic and crashes32%
  2. Patrol support28%
  3. Search28%
  4. Call for service12%

Flights, in order

25 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
12:13 amPatrol support7 minc7fee628
12:51 amPatrol support7 mina4cc9cd8
6:59 amPatrol support6 min0df40dc3
7:38 amPatrol support7 min5a8c0b2c
8:01 amTraffic and crashes8 min8460acbc
8:07 amTraffic and crashes5 min817650a3
10:10 amTraffic and crashes10 minbefa8ab4
10:25 amPatrol support7 min460da7be
11:16 amTraffic and crashes9 min2b63007f
11:37 amCall for service10 minfe4289af
12:07 pmPatrol support16 min7953ae7a
12:24 pmTraffic and crashes16 minecd1e3ba
12:45 pmSearch9 min72534e75
3:51 pmCall for service4 min5d4a1721
4:37 pmTraffic and crashes10 min8e9bd16a
5:10 pmSearch8 min84783575
5:34 pmTraffic and crashes3 min1a44e40b
6:31 pmCall for service15 min8bda5531
6:46 pmSearch20 min0b1a7f11
7:32 pmPatrol support4 min3b30423b
8:53 pmSearch13 min229adbda
9:07 pmSearch13 mind5cf102c
9:43 pmSearch6 minda3f726d
10:23 pmTraffic and crashes4 min4ff833e7
10:48 pmSearch14 min4f42f1e9

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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