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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Wednesday 21 October 2026

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

19

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:57 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:36 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 19 times on Wednesday 21 October 2026, the first at 12:57 am and the last at 11:36 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

19 drawable flights of 19. 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 support37%
  2. Training and testing16%
  3. Search16%
  4. Other11%
  5. Traffic and crashes11%
  6. Assisting another agency11%

Flights, in order

19 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
12:57 amOther12 min2654c282
1:06 amPatrol support7 min215721b9
3:29 amPatrol support7 minb9b3cd0b
3:48 amTraining and testing6 min5e4d82ad
4:30 amTraining and testing7 min50b4a091
10:18 amTraffic and crashes7 mine147563b
12:12 pmAssisting another agency8 min0b12b81e
2:26 pmPatrol support8 mine7a8dec5
2:56 pmOther5 minee6bbfa6
3:02 pmTraffic and crashes7 min11fa35cf
3:41 pmPatrol support8 min2ade29c6
4:54 pmPatrol support17 min789ff2a7
5:39 pmPatrol support5 mina148507a
8:13 pmPatrol support13 minf5835472
9:02 pmSearch19 mine80a218f
9:18 pmSearch10 min22bcdd59
10:40 pmSearch12 min4a7b1b7a
11:11 pmTraining and testing7 min2efe896f
11:36 pmAssisting another agency17 min184a9373

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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