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  4. October 2026
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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Wednesday 7 October 2026

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

7

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

2:49 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:39 am.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 7 times on Wednesday 7 October 2026, the first at 2:49 am and the last at 9:39 am EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

7 drawable flights of 7. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Patrol support71%
  2. Other14%
  3. Training and testing14%

Flights, in order

7 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
2:49 amPatrol support11 min2e738ab2
3:30 amPatrol support11 min61a132b8
3:50 amOther12 min5cbb8715
4:01 amPatrol support9 min5819e9af
4:23 amPatrol support12 min9bdcabd6
8:45 amPatrol support14 min3669a3e1
9:39 amTraining and testing6 minc2310331

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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