8
drone flights over Philadelphia that day.
10:07 am
first takeoff; the last was at 3:45 pm.
15 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Philadelphia police drones flew 8 times on Friday 17 October 2025, the first at 10:07 am and the last at 3:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:07 am | Other | 22 min | 2d82bbb1 |
| 11:35 am | Call for service | 6 min | 4a2fc36f |
| 11:50 am | Call for service | 7 min | e2dbc4b6 |
| 12:32 pm | Not stated | 19 min | ebf53343 |
| 12:57 pm | Call for service | 18 min | 907bca67 |
| 2:53 pm | Call for service | 15 min | 9dd7f556 |
| 3:27 pm | Other | 9 min | 85e1892e |
| 3:45 pm | Call for service | 15 min | bb879fdd |
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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