8
drone flights over Philadelphia that day.
10:22 am
first takeoff; the last was at 8:21 pm.
13 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Philadelphia police drones flew 8 times on Thursday 8 January 2026, the first at 10:22 am and the last at 8:21 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
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:22 am | Other | 17 min | 0cca1cc7 |
| 10:46 am | Other | 13 min | cf293a9c |
| 12:15 pm | Patrol support | 14 min | 585d4f50 |
| 5:26 pm | Call for service | 10 min | 5e1d8399 |
| 5:49 pm | Call for service | 15 min | f7d8f12e |
| 6:42 pm | Call for service | 14 min | 1e4c5c51 |
| 7:08 pm | Patrol support | 6 min | 3f057031 |
| 8:21 pm | Drone as first responder | 10 min | 8a1f26f9 |
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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