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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Sunday 13 September 2026

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

33

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

1:10 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:57 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 33 times on Sunday 13 September 2026, the first at 1:10 am and the last at 11:57 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

33 drawable flights of 33. 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. Search27%
  2. Patrol support27%
  3. Traffic and crashes21%
  4. Call for service18%
  5. Other3%
  6. Training and testing3%

Flights, in order

33 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
1:10 amSearch12 min2fa1f13f
1:24 amTraffic and crashes17 min7b6b6b0a
2:04 amCall for service10 min26cdac6d
3:10 amSearch10 minae60d582
3:22 amCall for service9 min74aa88dc
11:25 amPatrol support17 mina66871a9
11:54 amPatrol support12 min446087ca
12:07 pmPatrol support15 min28005e8c
12:27 pmPatrol support12 mincf013086
12:40 pmPatrol support10 min0acffd61
2:16 pmSearch17 minfe489484
3:27 pmPatrol support7 min1594eb34
3:57 pmPatrol support15 min3a1f31ea
4:13 pmSearch11 min30c696df
4:48 pmPatrol support18 min331ef065
5:03 pmSearch12 min3d077013
5:11 pmTraffic and crashes7 min9f0d52c0
6:09 pmTraffic and crashes6 mindbeeaa59
6:31 pmOther38 s8838ddba
6:37 pmTraffic and crashes10 mind7cfd36c
6:49 pmSearch6 mine564fd7c
7:02 pmCall for service19 minb64ec9ed
7:36 pmCall for service7 min5b28b929
7:45 pmSearch20 min2644b0ba
8:10 pmCall for service19 min1bf7a511
8:31 pmTraffic and crashes8 min3203a28c
8:59 pmSearch6 min342d61b7
9:32 pmSearch10 min9c932cd0
10:37 pmTraffic and crashes8 min7f11ee9e
10:47 pmCall for service9 minfebcd2de
10:59 pmTraffic and crashes10 min10c3b5cb
11:10 pmPatrol support15 minca662f21
11:57 pmTraining and testing19 min0ef622c7

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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