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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Tuesday 22 September 2026

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

23

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:33 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:37 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 23 times on Tuesday 22 September 2026, the first at 12:33 am and the last at 11:37 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

23 drawable flights of 23. 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. Training and testing30%
  2. Search26%
  3. Patrol support22%
  4. Traffic and crashes17%
  5. Not stated4%

Flights, in order

23 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
12:33 amSearch10 min52557309
2:02 amTraining and testing17 mine1808e3d
2:19 amNot stated14 min8b6d8559
3:31 amTraining and testing20 min4e5bb166
4:02 amTraining and testing14 min2e9a68ff
8:29 amPatrol support8 min185ee865
8:41 amPatrol support9 minc250bec0
9:12 amTraining and testing6 min8ddb01e1
9:39 amPatrol support13 minaa18bf5c
11:42 amPatrol support12 minc27732d4
12:49 pmSearch11 min99c2b9ad
2:38 pmTraffic and crashes6 minf35d2429
3:27 pmTraffic and crashes2 min29868643
3:37 pmSearch8 min78f2d4d3
5:38 pmTraffic and crashes1 min 19 sf82a8f36
5:40 pmTraining and testing40 sa4e4e3d1
5:56 pmSearch14 min17163da1
6:49 pmTraffic and crashes7 min3ef16f75
7:08 pmSearch10 min5cd85317
7:38 pmSearch4 minaaf1e7f4
10:39 pmPatrol support5 minc0e9283a
10:46 pmTraining and testing2 min982a16e2
11:37 pmTraining and testing14 minbaf150a0

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
  • 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 fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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