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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Tuesday 15 September 2026

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

37

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:51 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:53 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 37 times on Tuesday 15 September 2026, the first at 12:51 am and the last at 9:53 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

37 drawable flights of 37. 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. Patrol support32%
  2. Traffic and crashes27%
  3. Search22%
  4. Other8%
  5. Assisting another agency5%
  6. Training and testing3%
  7. Not stated3%

Flights, in order

37 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
12:51 amPatrol support15 min7dc1f57c
1:38 amPatrol support14 minc89febe2
7:23 amTraining and testing3 min22691012
7:46 amTraffic and crashes4 mind16edd79
8:05 amTraffic and crashes7 minc768a8b4
8:38 amAssisting another agency12 minbec03f71
9:02 amTraffic and crashes6 min02aaa2af
9:07 amSearch5 min7e4fbfcd
9:46 amPatrol support7 min8a6641cc
10:24 amPatrol support15 mindcf1e4c1
10:38 amTraffic and crashes5 min92e61393
11:06 amSearch8 min1f807f1e
11:12 amSearch11 min6d4e843d
11:22 amOther3 min9539773e
11:27 amTraffic and crashes4 mine20e1809
11:51 amAssisting another agency9 min5f365d1b
12:15 pmSearch11 min578395a4
1:06 pmPatrol support7 min3a795327
1:11 pmTraffic and crashes3 mineaada586
1:14 pmPatrol support4 min7e4bacd4
1:32 pmSearch8 min928d7065
2:22 pmOther6 minf2d785d2
2:31 pmSearch4 min9e025c46
2:36 pmPatrol support16 mina82fcd00
2:59 pmPatrol support6 min88a9cc8b
3:03 pmPatrol support12 min996816cb
3:14 pmPatrol support13 minb79778d5
4:27 pmOther15 minc3299e2a
5:22 pmPatrol support5 min505112ca
5:32 pmPatrol support16 mina154384c
5:49 pmNot stated3 min32513e20
5:52 pmTraffic and crashes2 min23630371
6:03 pmTraffic and crashes6 min09fc3118
6:07 pmTraffic and crashes4 min7ec152ee
8:57 pmSearch15 min643b448e
9:15 pmSearch17 min517240e3
9:53 pmTraffic and crashes17 min04ea0fcb

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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