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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Friday 23 October 2026

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

15

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

3:24 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 11:54 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 15 times on Friday 23 October 2026, the first at 3:24 pm and the last at 11:54 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

15 drawable flights of 15. 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 support87%
  2. Other7%
  3. Training and testing7%

Flights, in order

15 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
3:24 pmPatrol support14 min0482e349
5:03 pmPatrol support7 min6b7417cf
5:39 pmPatrol support11 min3b4d37e9
5:46 pmPatrol support10 minbf57803c
6:30 pmPatrol support3 mina4efc076
7:06 pmPatrol support9 minf9c50f19
8:06 pmPatrol support5 min1eadc872
8:25 pmPatrol support7 min383cf8c5
9:28 pmPatrol support15 minf6a0af1c
10:01 pmOther4 min5fb296b0
10:33 pmPatrol support10 minec653e7e
10:54 pmPatrol support15 min556a9257
11:12 pmPatrol support12 min36dcbf53
11:28 pmPatrol support10 min51b0377d
11:54 pmTraining and testing1 min 15 sf798685e

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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