6
drone flights over Philadelphia that day.
10:15 am
first takeoff; the last was at 8:10 pm.
12 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Philadelphia police drones flew 6 times on Wednesday 7 January 2026, the first at 10:15 am and the last at 8:10 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:15 am | Other | 11 min | 7535b029 |
| 10:27 am | Other | 16 min | 2208bc91 |
| 4:33 pm | Patrol support | 20 min | cbe84b54 |
| 6:10 pm | Call for service | 7 min | 0ecfced7 |
| 7:48 pm | Call for service | 5 min | 4ab85bad |
| 8:10 pm | Call for service | 13 min | 1a0344be |
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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