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  4. September 2026
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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Monday 7 September 2026

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

23

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

11:46 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:51 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 23 times on Monday 7 September 2026, the first at 11:46 am and the last at 10:51 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

23 drawable flights of 23. 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. Search48%
  2. Traffic and crashes35%
  3. Assisting another agency9%
  4. Patrol support4%
  5. Training and testing4%

Flights, in order

23 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
11:46 amSearch10 minb16c0cf5
2:48 pmTraffic and crashes5 mind6bda6c2
3:15 pmTraffic and crashes15 min5bb87004
3:20 pmSearch18 minac0ac979
3:32 pmSearch11 min65a31e9c
4:15 pmTraffic and crashes3 min8fef813f
4:55 pmAssisting another agency11 min32837179
5:46 pmSearch8 mina4c3cc15
6:04 pmAssisting another agency11 min2310c86c
6:23 pmTraffic and crashes8 min88fd9afd
6:24 pmSearch6 mina11feeaf
7:54 pmTraffic and crashes1 min 59 sffc3a606
7:57 pmTraffic and crashes7 minafbb5135
8:19 pmSearch3 minbb75ab84
8:23 pmSearch3 min5f6536ae
8:33 pmSearch10 min12b490d6
8:48 pmSearch10 mine950b32b
9:00 pmSearch12 minec038a88
9:20 pmTraffic and crashes6 mina4cbc121
9:52 pmTraffic and crashes9 min6ac28b85
10:23 pmPatrol support10 min756f49ea
10:45 pmSearch2 minc08539d9
10:51 pmTraining and testing1 min 37 se69b030e

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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