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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Wednesday 28 October 2026

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

32

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

7:06 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:21 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 32 times on Wednesday 28 October 2026, the first at 7:06 am and the last at 11:21 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

32 drawable flights of 32. 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 support44%
  2. Traffic and crashes22%
  3. Call for service12%
  4. Training and testing9%
  5. Search6%
  6. Other3%
  7. Assisting another agency3%

Flights, in order

32 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
7:06 amTraffic and crashes10 minbd8bd8ab
7:19 amPatrol support12 minf770e9c9
8:27 amPatrol support12 mine11803f8
9:23 amCall for service10 min52378233
9:33 amTraffic and crashes10 minafd0d0c0
10:06 amPatrol support8 min5c533cfa
11:23 amPatrol support11 mine596e902
11:37 amPatrol support7 minbd01d4a0
12:02 pmOther52 sb9bc8d1c
12:05 pmPatrol support11 min7a08ea29
12:32 pmTraining and testing4 mina39ce4d2
12:38 pmCall for service7 min74ed4d89
1:47 pmPatrol support19 minbeb5ff71
2:14 pmAssisting another agency10 min8a37f188
2:29 pmTraining and testing9 min3b3f37b6
2:39 pmTraining and testing5 min44ea1dd5
3:03 pmPatrol support19 min1fa54fa9
3:10 pmSearch13 mind8cd014d
3:46 pmCall for service7 min2314785e
4:14 pmTraffic and crashes8 mina807cf08
4:50 pmTraffic and crashes9 mindeacee0e
5:18 pmTraffic and crashes10 min2d30d8dc
5:45 pmPatrol support8 min69e66995
6:10 pmPatrol support6 min035d2b21
7:26 pmPatrol support13 min09a0e8c0
8:16 pmPatrol support8 minb35de233
9:11 pmPatrol support11 mineae40c59
9:39 pmTraffic and crashes6 min4fc2df1d
10:19 pmTraffic and crashes9 min44d5b694
10:35 pmSearch6 mina189bb74
10:49 pmCall for service11 minb20fa88d
11:21 pmPatrol support17 min0e6ca97f

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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