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Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Friday 30 October 2026

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

33

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

12:24 am

first takeoff; the last was at 6:17 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 33 times on Friday 30 October 2026, the first at 12:24 am and the last at 6:17 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

33 drawable flights of 33. 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 support30%
  2. Training and testing30%
  3. Search15%
  4. Traffic and crashes12%
  5. Other9%
  6. Call for service3%

Flights, in order

33 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
12:24 amPatrol support15 minceb26d7a
1:04 amPatrol support14 min6a2b9261
2:47 amPatrol support7 min76099ed8
4:22 amPatrol support12 min5ef9e074
7:21 amOther11 min403f2fd7
7:37 amSearch6 min72855a72
9:46 amTraffic and crashes7 min5083ab2e
9:53 amPatrol support9 min9aa062e2
10:52 amSearch14 min8450695d
10:59 amTraffic and crashes9 minfd1433c0
11:12 amTraffic and crashes12 min460a74d4
11:40 amPatrol support18 min831e3d9a
12:17 pmPatrol support11 min449f45e3
12:58 pmTraining and testing7 min8c1ac54a
1:09 pmTraining and testing5 min6596bb82
1:13 pmTraining and testing12 min220d9d5a
1:18 pmTraining and testing8 min715d44c2
1:28 pmTraining and testing12 mindceb6fa9
1:29 pmTraining and testing9 min06f132e5
1:40 pmTraining and testing10 mine47b5114
1:44 pmTraining and testing7 min202d0ed0
1:53 pmTraining and testing9 mined5d83e7
2:04 pmTraining and testing3 min9c9eb263
2:39 pmSearch5 mine3440c6c
2:48 pmPatrol support7 min3a3e6132
3:04 pmOther7 min257395b8
3:26 pmSearch7 min9852cde4
3:30 pmOther13 min7d69c969
3:45 pmTraffic and crashes11 min9d4b8438
4:49 pmCall for service18 min52e8c438
5:17 pmPatrol support6 min9e6662b1
6:12 pmSearch7 min105cf9ae
6:17 pmPatrol support3 min1349ca83

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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