9
drone flights over Philadelphia that day.
2:46 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 10:37 pm.
11 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Philadelphia police drones flew 9 times on Thursday 30 October 2025, the first at 2:46 pm and the last at 10:37 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
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2:46 pm | Call for service | 16 min | d92712f9 |
| 3:06 pm | Call for service | 21 min | 1df1e8f6 |
| 3:08 pm | Other | 8 min | 5f41534c |
| 3:27 pm | Call for service | 9 min | 591fc8a6 |
| 6:59 pm | Call for service | 11 min | b63cc93e |
| 7:11 pm | Call for service | 14 min | 9ca64b29 |
| 9:05 pm | Traffic and crashes | 7 min | 28e8e66b |
| 10:21 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 46 s | 5198d003 |
| 10:37 pm | Call for service | 14 min | b01f258e |
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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