8
drone flights over Philadelphia that day.
6:15 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 11:33 pm.
11 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Philadelphia police drones flew 8 times on Thursday 9 October 2025, the first at 6:15 pm and the last at 11:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6:15 pm | Call for service | 13 min | 42523c02 |
| 7:07 pm | Other | 9 min | fa03348c |
| 8:28 pm | Call for service | 11 min | ebf68067 |
| 8:52 pm | Other | 1 min 42 s | ed7ca373 |
| 8:57 pm | Not stated | 12 min | 185dab4e |
| 9:34 pm | Other | 14 min | dc8dc569 |
| 9:54 pm | Other | 11 min | 4d86ee74 |
| 11:33 pm | Call for service | 9 min | 4755a45f |
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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