8
drone flights over Philadelphia that day.
4:09 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 10:21 pm.
11 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Philadelphia police drones flew 8 times on Friday 24 October 2025, the first at 4:09 pm and the last at 10:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4:09 pm | Call for service | 13 min | 1fda6f4a |
| 5:42 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 8ff6b544 |
| 6:03 pm | Call for service | 14 min | c8b3131b |
| 7:39 pm | Call for service | 11 min | f2742d74 |
| 8:25 pm | Other | 9 min | 7c74facb |
| 9:13 pm | Call for service | 13 min | 818819a7 |
| 10:08 pm | Call for service | 6 min | 267c070c |
| 10:21 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 038b6485 |
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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