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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Friday 2 October 2026

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

14

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:11 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:33 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 14 times on Friday 2 October 2026, the first at 12:11 am and the last at 11:33 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

14 drawable flights of 14. 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 support36%
  2. Traffic and crashes29%
  3. Call for service14%
  4. Search14%
  5. Other7%

Flights, in order

14 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
12:11 amCall for service12 mindec9dd00
12:41 amOther1 min 53 saaf5133f
10:20 amPatrol support14 min41232250
3:17 pmPatrol support12 min56232de7
3:40 pmPatrol support8 min312c7216
8:18 pmTraffic and crashes5 minaa22b51c
8:31 pmCall for service8 min59c94732
8:38 pmPatrol support14 minf631f9b8
8:58 pmTraffic and crashes4 min7ed4398b
9:08 pmPatrol support3 minc1115423
9:36 pmTraffic and crashes13 min51a8fcbc
9:49 pmSearch9 min2b19d3ca
10:40 pmSearch14 min481c7cbe
11:33 pmTraffic and crashes18 mindecd22ba

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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