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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Monday 14 September 2026

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

26

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:37 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:10 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 26 times on Monday 14 September 2026, the first at 12:37 am and the last at 8:10 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Search46%
  2. Traffic and crashes35%
  3. Patrol support8%
  4. Call for service8%
  5. Other4%

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
12:37 amPatrol support4 min2b3d2256
1:35 amPatrol support14 min09742358
2:23 amSearch8 min17a255a1
3:02 amSearch18 minbde49d57
11:36 amSearch14 mind08b77d9
12:50 pmTraffic and crashes4 min067f040e
1:48 pmSearch5 min2605c2c8
2:05 pmCall for service5 minfb03bb08
2:47 pmTraffic and crashes3 min7b5d0939
3:23 pmTraffic and crashes11 mina345b1c8
3:44 pmSearch18 min8deb3b9b
3:57 pmTraffic and crashes3 minfc85fd09
4:03 pmOther6 min469cee8f
4:26 pmSearch10 min48529ab4
4:38 pmSearch3 min2cbcb3da
4:53 pmTraffic and crashes7 mind0b3bd6b
5:39 pmSearch7 min3cce4b67
5:55 pmTraffic and crashes6 min1807a9b4
6:06 pmTraffic and crashes6 min3b1e8ea1
6:10 pmSearch13 min5520f56d
6:34 pmSearch11 minf4665bad
6:50 pmTraffic and crashes13 min3f70e43d
7:30 pmSearch14 min638d5a59
7:54 pmCall for service9 min8bfd76dd
8:06 pmSearch11 minbd3002a8
8:10 pmTraffic and crashes5 min5905a154

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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