5
drone flights over Philadelphia that day.
10:41 am
first takeoff; the last was at 4:14 pm.
23 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Philadelphia police drones flew 5 times on Wednesday 14 January 2026, the first at 10:41 am and the last at 4:14 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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:41 am | Other | 23 min | 5c04252b |
| 11:06 am | Other | 24 min | c469bc2e |
| 11:31 am | Other | 24 min | 953c9c02 |
| 11:57 am | Other | 23 min | 120677ac |
| 4:14 pm | Call for service | 7 min | 334d0bc3 |
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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