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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · one day

Wednesday 4 February 2026

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

29

drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

10:54 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:56 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 29 times on Wednesday 4 February 2026, the first at 10:54 am and the last at 10:56 pm EST, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.

29 drawable flights of 29. 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. Other76%
  2. Not stated10%
  3. Drone as first responder7%
  4. Call for service3%
  5. Patrol support3%

Flights, in order

29 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
10:54 amOther14 min6040fecd
10:58 amOther16 minbbb3908b
11:03 amOther16 min4e5e65fb
11:12 amOther18 min6cba135e
11:28 amOther9 min17701be3
11:46 amOther11 min14536939
11:47 amOther15 min58df6ad2
12:03 pmOther15 min5eeeb468
12:08 pmOther16 min9d07f5f0
12:23 pmOther16 min3cd9ccf8
12:32 pmOther6 min69006313
12:42 pmOther5 min62ee88f4
1:06 pmOther16 min04ca4ef9
1:08 pmOther12 min2d2b4dc3
1:19 pmOther8 min8ccdf001
2:04 pmOther13 min6fe80018
2:15 pmOther15 min58c16200
2:31 pmOther14 min6859b6b8
2:47 pmOther14 min42178935
2:57 pmOther11 mine1033266
3:14 pmOther15 minb03260e8
3:28 pmOther14 mine0ba089d
5:47 pmDrone as first responder16 min62499540
7:33 pmCall for service7 minf719b409
7:53 pmNot stated7 min0c671f57
8:37 pmPatrol support10 mind0798c68
9:28 pmNot stated8 min4625ac8f
9:52 pmNot stated13 min10c6689f
10:56 pmDrone as first responder11 mine2d7148e

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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