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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · one day

Saturday 22 November 2025

15 drone flights from Philadelphia Police Department's published record.

15

drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

9:47 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:05 pm.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 15 times on Saturday 22 November 2025, the first at 9:47 am and the last at 8:05 pm EST, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.

15 drawable flights of 15. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, EST.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service53%
  2. Events27%
  3. Not stated7%
  4. Other7%
  5. Drone as first responder7%

Flights, in order

15 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 (EST)PurposeAirborneFlight
9:47 amNot stated20 minb5a9ddb5
9:59 amEvents21 minddbc63c5
10:17 amEvents21 min47257577
10:39 amEvents21 min7603613f
11:10 amCall for service13 minb4aa68d3
11:22 amEvents22 min24f16251
12:42 pmCall for service10 min5de25420
2:26 pmCall for service18 mind562d7a3
4:35 pmCall for service7 min39f41455
4:54 pmOther17 min577fc7f8
6:42 pmDrone as first responder16 min563df4c0
6:54 pmCall for service15 min2bc9fe6a
7:43 pmCall for service8 min2d1c65c2
7:49 pmCall for service14 mine7108727
8:05 pmCall for service5 min0fd48d2e

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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