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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Saturday 17 October 2026

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

25

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

9:25 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:24 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 25 times on Saturday 17 October 2026, the first at 9:25 am and the last at 11:24 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

25 drawable flights of 25. 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 support36%
  2. Search28%
  3. Assisting another agency12%
  4. Traffic and crashes12%
  5. Other4%
  6. Call for service4%
  7. Training and testing4%

Flights, in order

25 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
9:25 amPatrol support2 min622024b5
9:28 amOther10 minaf3e79d9
9:48 amPatrol support9 mina018bdad
10:26 amCall for service3 min803a3ba3
11:06 amAssisting another agency9 min9726dc98
12:14 pmSearch10 minf63cbf86
1:07 pmPatrol support19 min2d1347fe
2:06 pmTraining and testing14 mincabfb209
2:21 pmAssisting another agency10 min41fdcdfb
2:48 pmSearch8 min95f9dde4
2:54 pmTraffic and crashes9 min041d2501
2:57 pmPatrol support9 mind86b7774
3:46 pmPatrol support12 min5e2766f9
4:23 pmPatrol support19 min9a2bffb7
5:20 pmSearch13 min8dc50091
6:13 pmPatrol support14 mind3d75bda
6:26 pmPatrol support10 min2cba8ddf
6:49 pmSearch6 mina7259aaf
7:01 pmSearch6 minbb1b30bb
7:46 pmAssisting another agency8 min2c6dcc33
7:58 pmPatrol support3 mind2fb5129
8:10 pmSearch9 min567a62a0
8:42 pmTraffic and crashes8 min4db73dc9
9:49 pmSearch18 mina53aee47
11:24 pmTraffic and crashes12 min684c83eb

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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