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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Wednesday 14 October 2026

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

17

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:19 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:58 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 17 times on Wednesday 14 October 2026, the first at 12:19 am and the last at 11:58 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

17 drawable flights of 17. 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. Search41%
  2. Patrol support24%
  3. Traffic and crashes18%
  4. Training and testing6%
  5. Assisting another agency6%
  6. Call for service6%

Flights, in order

17 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
12:19 amPatrol support16 mina8bad924
12:02 pmTraining and testing3 minbbed1aba
2:58 pmPatrol support14 min92272426
6:17 pmAssisting another agency4 min541c7200
7:59 pmPatrol support11 minf274d063
8:31 pmTraffic and crashes9 minb8d28c5b
8:48 pmPatrol support13 min932fc94d
9:04 pmSearch8 minc07e11db
9:10 pmSearch14 min6771411a
9:37 pmTraffic and crashes5 mince29496c
9:48 pmSearch6 minbc037a0c
10:20 pmSearch13 minc48fa872
10:51 pmSearch14 min471cc53e
11:03 pmCall for service10 min63af76eb
11:31 pmTraffic and crashes5 min8f6756a4
11:38 pmSearch11 min856df5a3
11:58 pmSearch3 min7e8cef15

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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