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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Tuesday 1 September 2026

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

26

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

6:09 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:48 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 26 times on Tuesday 1 September 2026, the first at 6:09 am and the last at 7:48 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Search38%
  2. Traffic and crashes15%
  3. Call for service15%
  4. Patrol support12%
  5. Other12%
  6. Assisting another agency8%

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
6:09 amPatrol support12 min57b04a6d
7:00 amSearch4 min4ec0cd4d
7:17 amAssisting another agency14 min41562bea
8:31 amSearch5 min704f176d
9:11 amPatrol support4 min19bdc98e
9:39 amSearch6 min557855a7
9:57 amAssisting another agency13 min40818432
10:23 amTraffic and crashes11 min7766e3f8
10:31 amTraffic and crashes6 min32ebb719
11:08 amSearch14 min5d0aa74a
11:20 amOther13 min13b14311
11:43 amPatrol support12 min74ed5590
12:42 pmTraffic and crashes4 minf3e11904
1:30 pmOther18 min07deb338
1:36 pmSearch13 min1e6fe9b1
1:45 pmOther14 min0eba4fce
2:08 pmSearch7 min441ae80f
2:17 pmCall for service12 mine9190e65
3:32 pmSearch16 min5a08c402
3:51 pmSearch9 minfaa1003a
4:07 pmTraffic and crashes1 min 37 s54c25fac
5:45 pmCall for service7 min25dcf122
5:52 pmSearch5 min7c58e515
6:51 pmCall for service7 mind8c9b86a
7:05 pmCall for service5 min5e295ba5
7:48 pmSearch10 min77a380df

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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