drone flights over Sterling Heights that day.

3:47 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 5:09 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Sterling Heights police drones flew 3 times on Wednesday 21 October 2026, the first at 3:47 pm and the last at 5:09 pm EDT, by Sterling Heights Police Department's published record.

3 drawable flights of 3. 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

Patrol support67%
Training and testing33%

Flights, in order

3 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
3:47 pm	Patrol support	15 min	c8f67ae9
4:10 pm	Patrol support	9 min	d083377c
5:09 pm	Training and testing	3 min	fb5f7ee9

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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