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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Thursday 1 October 2026

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

15

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:07 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:51 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 15 times on Thursday 1 October 2026, the first at 12:07 am and the last at 9:51 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

15 drawable flights of 15. 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. Search33%
  2. Traffic and crashes20%
  3. Training and testing13%
  4. Assisting another agency13%
  5. Call for service7%
  6. Patrol support7%
  7. Other7%

Flights, in order

15 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
12:07 amTraining and testing16 min8547d687
2:33 amSearch8 minc422840e
2:56 amTraining and testing7 min6d216acd
12:17 pmSearch5 minb03d109c
2:59 pmSearch14 min34f60132
3:30 pmAssisting another agency19 min39b7b890
5:16 pmCall for service5 min1025e66a
6:13 pmTraffic and crashes2 min04b7e2c9
6:15 pmTraffic and crashes3 min5ac4addb
6:43 pmSearch19 minc76e65c0
7:21 pmPatrol support8 min01c2d7dd
8:30 pmOther3 min736fc466
8:51 pmSearch10 min32869682
9:02 pmTraffic and crashes6 min309422d6
9:51 pmAssisting another agency8 minaae3c64c

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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