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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · one day

Wednesday 31 December 2025

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

32

drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

6:04 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 11:50 pm.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 32 times on Wednesday 31 December 2025, the first at 6:04 pm and the last at 11:50 pm EST, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.

32 drawable flights of 32. 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. Events59%
  2. Call for service31%
  3. Training and testing3%
  4. Not stated3%
  5. Other3%

Flights, in order

32 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
6:04 pmTraining and testing1 min 37 sf7e3ec0e
6:17 pmEvents17 minfeb4e4a2
6:58 pmEvents18 minc25215a2
7:08 pmNot stated20 min7f358279
7:10 pmCall for service15 min0486d3fe
7:17 pmCall for service8 mine0f0be1a
7:36 pmEvents19 min109daadd
7:37 pmEvents18 mina779607d
7:37 pmCall for service18 minf10dcd31
7:39 pmOther10 min9a7b4c24
7:56 pmCall for service11 min87920a8f
7:58 pmCall for service9 min87ee9318
7:59 pmEvents19 min4a69deae
8:10 pmEvents17 min235d0148
8:15 pmCall for service13 min67d5e942
8:17 pmCall for service19 mine9801ed3
8:20 pmEvents17 min223e7abf
8:30 pmEvents20 min2cb1ed6a
8:45 pmEvents18 minb84cac2e
9:05 pmEvents17 minfc0c8c0d
9:08 pmEvents18 min883067e3
9:20 pmCall for service14 min6346f6a3
9:27 pmEvents19 min55df77c6
9:29 pmCall for service9 minea2ef08e
9:30 pmEvents19 minad54fcf6
9:56 pmEvents20 min57e210b8
10:12 pmEvents18 minaaae1d52
10:15 pmCall for service17 mine5c1b82e
10:51 pmEvents18 min044e79e0
11:00 pmEvents17 min7ac2910f
11:37 pmEvents12 minbc969856
11:50 pmEvents23 min3cc842f6

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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