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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Sunday 20 September 2026

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

22

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:52 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:44 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 22 times on Sunday 20 September 2026, the first at 12:52 am and the last at 9:44 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

22 drawable flights of 22. 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. Patrol support41%
  2. Traffic and crashes27%
  3. Call for service23%
  4. Assisting another agency9%

Flights, in order

22 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
12:52 amPatrol support15 minbc59a81a
2:26 amPatrol support17 min7b80ffa7
3:02 amPatrol support5 min65baea4a
4:00 amPatrol support10 min13f6ab8f
10:28 amAssisting another agency17 min6b34f2a3
10:51 amPatrol support16 minb178c71b
11:37 amPatrol support20 min7509556c
12:32 pmPatrol support13 mine2e26d1e
12:49 pmTraffic and crashes9 minf836212f
1:20 pmAssisting another agency11 min975461d0
1:53 pmTraffic and crashes16 mina33c0201
2:12 pmCall for service6 minefa9b383
2:24 pmCall for service14 min8224deef
2:40 pmCall for service10 minf33e3ecd
3:07 pmTraffic and crashes6 min018405ac
3:44 pmTraffic and crashes18 min4f44f4c5
4:29 pmCall for service11 min2b5f9200
5:22 pmTraffic and crashes7 min97565222
5:58 pmTraffic and crashes10 min41a06f09
6:14 pmCall for service8 min339445a4
7:29 pmPatrol support8 min431d390b
9:44 pmPatrol support11 minde25cb58

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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