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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Friday 4 September 2026

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

13

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:13 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:53 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 13 times on Friday 4 September 2026, the first at 12:13 am and the last at 8:53 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

13 drawable flights of 13. 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. Assisting another agency23%
  2. Traffic and crashes23%
  3. Other23%
  4. Training and testing8%
  5. Search8%
  6. Patrol support8%
  7. Not stated8%

Flights, in order

13 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 amAssisting another agency3 mine0db932b
12:17 amAssisting another agency5 minf4b9b19f
11:11 amTraining and testing3 min58d6e183
1:17 pmTraffic and crashes7 min01d101f8
1:50 pmSearch17 min984aeeed
2:09 pmTraffic and crashes6 minb9d322bc
2:49 pmOther7 min197e9bfd
4:37 pmOther8 minf1e37040
5:31 pmAssisting another agency15 minb24fa2bf
5:58 pmOther9 min74c942f4
6:25 pmPatrol support8 mind7c4c512
6:35 pmNot stated6 minb15627eb
8:53 pmTraffic and crashes6 min4b090582

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
  • 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 fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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