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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Friday 18 September 2026

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

30

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:26 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:59 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 30 times on Friday 18 September 2026, the first at 12:26 am and the last at 11:59 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

30 drawable flights of 30. 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. Search37%
  2. Traffic and crashes30%
  3. Patrol support23%
  4. Training and testing3%
  5. Other3%
  6. Call for service3%

Flights, in order

30 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
12:26 amTraffic and crashes8 min02fe3dcc
1:31 amTraining and testing17 min9344c02e
1:37 amSearch5 min5961e1c0
2:26 amSearch7 min4a355558
2:34 amPatrol support16 min2c5279e5
3:15 amPatrol support19 minab016a12
4:20 amPatrol support6 min148f8817
1:09 pmTraffic and crashes12 minbdf0accc
1:27 pmSearch7 minae03abde
3:07 pmSearch12 min3968a4a4
3:15 pmPatrol support15 min7eea2959
3:43 pmSearch12 minae15655d
4:21 pmTraffic and crashes5 min4c80ee7f
4:35 pmSearch19 min4f5acb20
4:42 pmOther14 minad3c9d8b
5:35 pmSearch10 mind87bd8d6
7:06 pmPatrol support10 min198a2c7c
7:18 pmPatrol support12 min6faa18d0
7:40 pmPatrol support5 min8e5c3aff
8:04 pmCall for service7 minad2a0043
8:34 pmTraffic and crashes11 mine164e0fd
8:59 pmTraffic and crashes9 min46257d2c
9:27 pmTraffic and crashes8 minc07cb62c
9:35 pmSearch7 min37d678d1
9:44 pmSearch11 min95f74e18
9:56 pmSearch7 min6cf37e5e
10:09 pmTraffic and crashes5 min9fcabeb4
10:36 pmTraffic and crashes6 minb89de649
11:42 pmSearch13 min571a11f5
11:59 pmTraffic and crashes14 min72747926

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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