drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

8:05 am

first takeoff; the last was at 12:25 pm.

21 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 25 times on Thursday 27 November 2025, the first at 8:05 am and the last at 12:25 pm EST, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.

25 drawable flights of 25. 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Events100%

Flights, in order

25 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)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
8:05 am	Events	21 min	`3bd21192`
8:09 am	Events	19 min	`23ac1a2f`
8:15 am	Events	22 min	`264ee0ad`
8:27 am	Events	22 min	`3f1c4ada`
8:28 am	Events	21 min	`a6ecc344`
8:50 am	Events	19 min	`8256894d`
8:52 am	Events	20 min	`20850668`
9:06 am	Events	23 min	`54eeeb77`
9:09 am	Events	23 min	`471206ef`
9:12 am	Events	23 min	`a87c5b20`
9:32 am	Events	19 min	`525de184`
9:35 am	Events	21 min	`f8ee4731`
9:42 am	Events	16 min	`7b2073ca`
9:57 am	Events	22 min	`b15af67d`
10:13 am	Events	18 min	`b9e90e43`
10:22 am	Events	19 min	`3c9f8580`
10:32 am	Events	14 min	`35f90eda`
10:40 am	Events	23 min	`69464002`
11:01 am	Events	19 min	`3aab2bc4`
11:03 am	Events	20 min	`dd664511`
11:21 am	Events	21 min	`570880d8`
11:24 am	Events	26 min	`546d68b3`
11:53 am	Events	17 min	`00e38989`
12:00 pm	Events	24 min	`e89a8484`
12:25 pm	Events	4 min	`de7c72a5`

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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