drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:11 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:48 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 20 times on Friday 25 September 2026, the first at 12:11 am and the last at 11:48 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

20 drawable flights of 20. 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

Search40%
Patrol support35%
Traffic and crashes10%
Call for service5%
Training and testing5%
Other5%

Flights, in order

20 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)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
12:11 am	Search	14 min	`eaeea1a6`
12:41 am	Traffic and crashes	5 min	`a753c77e`
1:32 am	Call for service	12 min	`d51d6078`
1:51 am	Search	19 min	`d7f9a4d4`
2:35 am	Patrol support	18 min	`6e0a60bb`
11:48 am	Patrol support	11 min	`961f6cfc`
12:48 pm	Search	11 min	`ad477557`
1:01 pm	Traffic and crashes	6 min	`8cee03f9`
1:25 pm	Search	9 min	`3d235a20`
1:49 pm	Search	21 min	`85cdb300`
2:35 pm	Search	10 min	`647bec1b`
3:11 pm	Search	14 min	`b3cd84ff`
5:04 pm	Training and testing	52 s	`e1251f67`
6:10 pm	Patrol support	6 min	`a20ea1e2`
6:15 pm	Patrol support	7 min	`1fe356c7`
6:50 pm	Search	13 min	`4c77914b`
7:07 pm	Patrol support	2 min	`f3a2242b`
8:06 pm	Other	10 min	`b71b1c6a`
10:46 pm	Patrol support	8 min	`2c1f84da`
11:48 pm	Patrol support	7 min	`2038fc5d`

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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