7
drone flights over Sterling Heights that day.
8:41 am
first takeoff; the last was at 1:40 pm.
3 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Sterling Heights police drones flew 7 times on Wednesday 14 October 2026, the first at 8:41 am and the last at 1:40 pm EDT, by Sterling Heights Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, EDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
7 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) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:41 am | Training and testing | 3 min | bcbf9c9d |
| 12:19 pm | Training and testing | 2 min | 6f33637f |
| 1:23 pm | Training and testing | 3 min | b5683079 |
| 1:27 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 18 s | 02b9a5f0 |
| 1:32 pm | Training and testing | 4 min | 25467bf1 |
| 1:37 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 20 s | 46de68ae |
| 1:40 pm | Training and testing | 3 min | 596443c2 |
How this page is made
- Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
- 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 fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
- Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
- A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.
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