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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Saturday 29 August 2026

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

26

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:11 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:17 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 26 times on Saturday 29 August 2026, the first at 12:11 am and the last at 10:17 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

26 drawable flights of 26. 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. Patrol support27%
  2. Search27%
  3. Traffic and crashes23%
  4. Assisting another agency12%
  5. Call for service8%
  6. Training and testing4%

Flights, in order

26 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
12:11 amTraffic and crashes6 min6ef5240a
1:11 amTraining and testing3 minc1797b8b
1:36 amTraffic and crashes13 min4abf2e6e
9:39 amPatrol support5 min1f705504
11:42 amAssisting another agency9 minefad688e
12:38 pmPatrol support6 min19c6370c
1:19 pmPatrol support11 min21cea877
2:31 pmSearch18 minf4f7882b
2:47 pmSearch6 min40a35c0d
3:42 pmTraffic and crashes7 minf28a027b
4:31 pmTraffic and crashes15 min48b67358
4:47 pmSearch17 min95c99179
5:09 pmPatrol support7 min5c9ecaa7
5:35 pmTraffic and crashes3 mind0fc7e1d
5:39 pmSearch6 min4bd650e2
6:18 pmCall for service5 min281c69c0
6:44 pmSearch6 minc4d41a33
7:01 pmTraffic and crashes3 min71dcecb2
7:10 pmCall for service8 mind9bcb90f
7:41 pmPatrol support17 min8836ec69
7:54 pmPatrol support18 min7a20d353
8:07 pmPatrol support13 mindd33e344
9:01 pmSearch9 minaf00831b
9:22 pmSearch12 minb4bab317
10:03 pmAssisting another agency14 mind60dc58a
10:17 pmAssisting another agency15 minc0503ec6

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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