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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Saturday 12 September 2026

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

32

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:50 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:30 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 32 times on Saturday 12 September 2026, the first at 12:50 am and the last at 11:30 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

32 drawable flights of 32. 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. Search34%
  2. Call for service19%
  3. Traffic and crashes16%
  4. Patrol support12%
  5. Training and testing6%
  6. Assisting another agency6%
  7. Other6%

Flights, in order

32 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
12:50 amSearch12 mineb2370bf
1:07 amTraffic and crashes14 min3deb9548
3:42 amTraining and testing19 min955f2426
4:10 amPatrol support9 mine636df88
4:20 amTraining and testing16 min643bf0c1
2:20 pmAssisting another agency14 minc6196b9c
2:53 pmCall for service20 min84d39a34
3:16 pmTraffic and crashes8 mina879abdd
3:44 pmCall for service3 min113f61ae
3:52 pmPatrol support7 min08035e0c
4:05 pmCall for service6 min6d2051b0
4:23 pmSearch7 min97ec1162
4:33 pmAssisting another agency8 min62ed025f
4:39 pmCall for service16 min206e38bc
5:10 pmSearch15 minb0578b12
5:27 pmTraffic and crashes5 min6353b0f5
5:37 pmSearch19 min50d2bf3f
5:58 pmSearch8 minbd84b3e6
6:11 pmTraffic and crashes6 min3cf62ff4
6:21 pmOther3 min8435dcb3
6:55 pmSearch18 min698f1778
7:16 pmSearch4 min354f296f
7:40 pmSearch13 mine6dedc6f
7:53 pmSearch4 mind0aea3c5
8:06 pmSearch17 minc35edc09
8:44 pmSearch13 min7ef14d28
9:11 pmCall for service16 min5f9d42c1
9:13 pmTraffic and crashes12 min85bc5365
10:39 pmCall for service18 min5948347c
11:04 pmOther5 min5d2e1045
11:10 pmPatrol support19 min618d975a
11:30 pmPatrol support11 min8185da88

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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