8
drone flights over Philadelphia that day.
12:14 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 8:36 pm.
14 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Philadelphia police drones flew 8 times on Wednesday 8 October 2025, the first at 12:14 pm and the last at 8:36 pm EDT, by Philadelphia 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
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:14 pm | Call for service | 7 min | bf4ecc06 |
| 12:28 pm | Patrol support | 17 min | 7f52f27e |
| 12:47 pm | Patrol support | 18 min | b0d3fa28 |
| 2:52 pm | Call for service | 15 min | 4b1ae1c9 |
| 7:18 pm | Not stated | 12 min | 4515442d |
| 7:51 pm | Other | 15 min | 99785701 |
| 8:16 pm | Other | 3 min | 8185e0e7 |
| 8:36 pm | Patrol support | 14 min | a2b704ae |
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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