CityDroneWatch
  1. CityDroneWatch
  2. Michigan
  3. Dearborn
  4. October 2026
  5. 31

Dearborn, Michigan · one day

Saturday 31 October 2026

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

31

drone flights over Dearborn that day.

8:44 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:40 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Dearborn police drones flew 31 times on Saturday 31 October 2026, the first at 8:44 am and the last at 8:40 pm EDT, by Dearborn Police Department's published record.

31 drawable flights of 31. 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 support35%
  2. Traffic and crashes32%
  3. Search19%
  4. Training and testing6%
  5. Call for service3%
  6. Other3%

Flights, in order

31 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
8:44 amTraffic and crashes12 min6a2f33e9
9:12 amPatrol support5 min242030a8
10:07 amSearch7 min881a702b
10:13 amTraffic and crashes5 mine2ded17e
10:51 amPatrol support7 mind54b0093
11:13 amCall for service0 se57a362f
12:02 pmTraining and testing4 mind064cac7
12:40 pmTraffic and crashes3 min139d0daf
12:51 pmTraining and testing10 min8febbb53
1:10 pmTraffic and crashes4 minc4fcdc06
1:44 pmSearch4 min8fe3da0e
1:53 pmSearch9 mind3b81b96
2:18 pmOther8 minc2e26b68
2:27 pmTraffic and crashes6 minf6439401
2:55 pmPatrol support8 min4a28c8c5
2:56 pmTraffic and crashes5 min80943ef0
3:19 pmSearch7 mina2a8aebb
3:28 pmPatrol support7 min8b97dd33
3:40 pmTraffic and crashes5 min1e3322b5
4:28 pmSearch9 min1b3feb80
4:48 pmPatrol support7 min41566fec
5:00 pmTraffic and crashes4 min89b877d4
5:07 pmTraffic and crashes5 min862019e0
5:20 pmPatrol support7 min6e3106cd
5:29 pmSearch10 mind2a220c9
5:48 pmTraffic and crashes2 mind7a8c834
5:53 pmPatrol support9 min7535bf82
6:07 pmPatrol support14 min794ca359
7:27 pmPatrol support4 min7e5e5450
8:10 pmPatrol support15 min95e5b62d
8:40 pmPatrol support11 min285cb975

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.

Corrections and questions: see the about page. See about this site for the sources and the publication rules.