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  4. October 2026
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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Thursday 29 October 2026

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

22

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

7:23 am

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

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 22 times on Thursday 29 October 2026, the first at 7:23 am and the last at 11:54 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

22 drawable flights of 22. 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. Training and testing36%
  3. Traffic and crashes9%
  4. Other9%
  5. Call for service5%
  6. Assisting another agency5%

Flights, in order

22 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
7:23 amPatrol support10 min5aaba770
7:48 amTraffic and crashes7 minb469fed3
8:48 amPatrol support10 mine07a792e
9:02 amPatrol support5 min5bcaa976
10:16 amTraffic and crashes10 mind18d97fc
11:15 amTraining and testing17 minfc6ec8bc
11:34 amTraining and testing8 min40cd6133
11:54 amTraining and testing17 min0c7e6636
12:12 pmTraining and testing20 min15cd8cab
12:33 pmTraining and testing13 min9c4cf819
1:01 pmTraining and testing17 min45a9b77f
1:21 pmTraining and testing18 min7e1fc8cf
1:42 pmTraining and testing9 min9a1825bf
1:52 pmCall for service11 min9c9ba7a9
2:01 pmPatrol support13 mina26d1886
2:02 pmPatrol support9 min4f0d0a06
2:49 pmPatrol support8 min53d56685
2:55 pmOther3 minb5d0ecb2
3:26 pmAssisting another agency14 min06b34a49
3:58 pmOther3 mina91d9eba
4:27 pmPatrol support14 min8697e576
11:54 pmPatrol support6 min54b29ae9

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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