4
drone flights over Philadelphia that day.
5:45 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 8:26 pm.
13 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Philadelphia police drones flew 4 times on Saturday 11 October 2025, the first at 5:45 pm and the last at 8:26 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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5:45 pm | Call for service | 11 min | d0dea20b |
| 6:13 pm | Call for service | 17 min | aa016142 |
| 7:26 pm | Other | 13 min | eb631ae6 |
| 8:26 pm | Other | 13 min | 64c1669a |
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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