7
drone flights over Sterling Heights that day.
10:04 am
first takeoff; the last was at 4:51 pm.
6 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Sterling Heights police drones flew 7 times on Friday 23 October 2026, the first at 10:04 am and the last at 4:51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:04 am | Patrol support | 12 min | a4fbea18 |
| 11:59 am | Training and testing | 6 min | 25f657b5 |
| 4:02 pm | Training and testing | 5 min | 46f9e079 |
| 4:09 pm | Training and testing | 6 min | e6a0a401 |
| 4:24 pm | Training and testing | 21 min | 10c4db57 |
| 4:46 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 34 s | 0da9ef99 |
| 4:51 pm | Other | 21 min | 50939bb7 |
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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