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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Saturday 19 September 2026

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

33

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:23 am

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

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 33 times on Saturday 19 September 2026, the first at 12:23 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Traffic and crashes30%
  2. Search30%
  3. Patrol support18%
  4. Call for service15%
  5. Other6%

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
12:23 amTraffic and crashes5 min6bb77e8f
12:34 amSearch18 min0af2c9ec
1:36 amSearch6 min507d3d1c
2:26 amSearch17 min15b8c1a6
2:43 amSearch10 min5e67b741
2:53 amSearch6 min52d66558
9:23 amTraffic and crashes8 min8c90f991
10:20 amCall for service15 mina4bc43b7
10:41 amTraffic and crashes18 mincb89bb20
10:58 amTraffic and crashes9 min3973f3e0
11:06 amTraffic and crashes10 min3933c1d2
11:21 amCall for service6 minb86e16fe
11:37 amPatrol support7 min372c5d66
12:17 pmTraffic and crashes9 min23e0ee9c
12:25 pmCall for service8 min66b39973
12:31 pmPatrol support8 min042281e8
12:49 pmPatrol support12 min990163ca
1:04 pmCall for service11 min25e65787
2:21 pmSearch18 mina97d6594
2:28 pmPatrol support8 mina9759590
2:40 pmSearch9 mina049c1a1
5:29 pmTraffic and crashes4 minb7267323
6:06 pmTraffic and crashes9 min261d1de7
6:19 pmCall for service10 min3f16e0d6
6:59 pmSearch16 min08d81e39
7:17 pmSearch13 min731e664b
7:59 pmOther5 minda3a5b6e
8:03 pmTraffic and crashes16 mindf33157c
8:20 pmOther1 min 29 s2f28f17f
8:21 pmSearch13 min5784b281
8:53 pmTraffic and crashes5 min1661c1d9
11:41 pmPatrol support13 min4ac3da8e
11:57 pmPatrol support4 mine3c06fb0

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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