9
drone flights over Philadelphia that day.
10:31 am
first takeoff; the last was at 6:36 pm.
11 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Philadelphia police drones flew 9 times on Saturday 20 December 2025, the first at 10:31 am and the last at 6:36 pm EST, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, EST.
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 (EST) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:31 am | Other | 17 min | e2e7f904 |
| 10:59 am | Other | 11 min | 18b2cc21 |
| 11:07 am | Other | 17 min | 2b62bbbe |
| 11:31 am | Call for service | 10 min | 03de2d23 |
| 11:41 am | Other | 11 min | 93e1b3a7 |
| 12:16 pm | Call for service | 7 min | 6988abf2 |
| 12:42 pm | Call for service | 18 min | a4530b15 |
| 4:03 pm | Call for service | 8 min | d006ba56 |
| 6:36 pm | Training and testing | 8 min | 14f6fefa |
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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