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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Thursday 27 August 2026

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

29

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:08 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:12 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 29 times on Thursday 27 August 2026, the first at 12:08 am and the last at 11:12 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

29 drawable flights of 29. 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. Search34%
  2. Traffic and crashes24%
  3. Call for service14%
  4. Patrol support10%
  5. Assisting another agency10%
  6. Other3%
  7. Not stated3%

Flights, in order

29 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
12:08 amCall for service8 min23889411
12:21 amPatrol support7 min1e987ae4
12:31 amSearch16 min8bfdfe5e
12:59 amSearch15 min2bfba7d7
2:02 amCall for service12 mind5ebaad7
2:17 amTraffic and crashes8 min5cffd007
3:06 amSearch6 min824b4406
10:22 amPatrol support14 min02c92ea1
12:09 pmOther15 mine3559974
1:30 pmSearch15 min354434b5
3:04 pmSearch11 min57c6a9f9
3:20 pmSearch17 min18a39287
3:58 pmAssisting another agency3 min945ceb77
4:14 pmTraffic and crashes3 min9a13aa02
4:45 pmTraffic and crashes6 mincc3c4d4c
5:06 pmTraffic and crashes5 mine2d1f5f8
5:19 pmSearch4 min2bda776a
5:50 pmCall for service17 minfd0ba8c6
6:26 pmTraffic and crashes6 minf914e795
7:49 pmSearch3 minc3b05cd2
7:54 pmNot stated9 minf633be88
8:09 pmSearch4 min2e9ca64f
8:23 pmAssisting another agency17 min02e2d902
9:06 pmTraffic and crashes3 min88445567
10:11 pmAssisting another agency17 min0ac182ae
10:31 pmPatrol support4 minc0dc0c77
10:34 pmCall for service16 min3bb71653
11:04 pmTraffic and crashes8 minfacf6835
11:12 pmSearch15 min2ca528b7

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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