9
drone flights over Philadelphia that day.
10:48 am
first takeoff; the last was at 10:06 pm.
15 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Philadelphia police drones flew 9 times on Tuesday 13 January 2026, the first at 10:48 am and the last at 10:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:48 am | Other | 18 min | f754ff52 |
| 11:01 am | Not stated | 13 min | 14c9eb02 |
| 11:22 am | Call for service | 15 min | 1595bf6a |
| 11:53 am | Other | 21 min | 4709a375 |
| 12:42 pm | Patrol support | 15 min | 0786374a |
| 1:39 pm | Call for service | 9 min | 0c3ab250 |
| 2:18 pm | Other | 14 min | cc6dd7fa |
| 6:47 pm | Patrol support | 20 min | f5c8fee2 |
| 10:06 pm | Patrol support | 10 min | c363c906 |
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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