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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Wednesday 26 August 2026

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

30

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

6:24 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:08 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 30 times on Wednesday 26 August 2026, the first at 6:24 am and the last at 11:08 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

30 drawable flights of 30. 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. Search30%
  2. Patrol support30%
  3. Traffic and crashes23%
  4. Not stated7%
  5. Training and testing3%
  6. Other3%
  7. Assisting another agency3%

Flights, in order

30 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
6:24 amSearch12 min5b7bd7a8
7:14 amPatrol support5 minee4692a0
8:05 amTraining and testing1 min 34 sf36a2f80
8:07 amPatrol support11 min8756f95f
8:14 amPatrol support6 min4550d953
8:51 amNot stated9 min4898159c
9:06 amPatrol support8 min3edcb5d6
9:23 amPatrol support5 min511968c7
10:14 amPatrol support2 min3de0c1d2
10:44 amSearch8 min64a38881
10:52 amPatrol support8 min26a35d8f
12:23 pmPatrol support6 min041d6283
1:22 pmPatrol support7 min621b8992
1:54 pmSearch8 min47fdd972
2:55 pmSearch3 minebf1dcb8
4:04 pmTraffic and crashes7 min9e1cd866
4:14 pmTraffic and crashes3 mincd3149be
4:44 pmTraffic and crashes9 min0322c5f9
4:57 pmTraffic and crashes5 minc9585235
5:03 pmTraffic and crashes20 min4875e9f2
6:00 pmTraffic and crashes9 min5128009d
7:13 pmTraffic and crashes13 mind82b310a
7:14 pmSearch9 min040cac1a
7:40 pmSearch6 min5978fc6f
9:01 pmNot stated14 minfd71afd8
9:13 pmSearch10 min6d9a3f1b
9:31 pmOther5 min372c82f2
10:34 pmSearch7 min2f19426b
10:49 pmSearch9 min6ee134cb
11:08 pmAssisting another agency20 minedffc015

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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