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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · one day

Thursday 5 February 2026

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

32

drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

10:37 am

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

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 32 times on Thursday 5 February 2026, the first at 10:37 am and the last at 10:10 pm EST, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.

32 drawable flights of 32. 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. Other62%
  2. Not stated16%
  3. Training and testing6%
  4. Drone as first responder6%
  5. Patrol support6%
  6. Call for service3%

Flights, in order

32 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
10:37 amOther15 minf948f2ed
10:55 amOther16 min35cf330e
11:12 amOther9 min3b162948
11:17 amOther11 min55a8d061
11:25 amOther13 minbf46e67e
11:37 amCall for service10 min168f9c0a
11:52 amOther13 min3d0d9461
12:07 pmOther18 min22b64975
12:28 pmOther16 minac6f07fe
12:31 pmTraining and testing7 min9285d8b6
1:09 pmOther8 min98454219
1:17 pmOther8 minba24e0dc
1:36 pmOther13 min0efa55a2
1:40 pmOther14 minc9f48a0d
2:03 pmOther17 min58ff9f62
2:13 pmOther10 min847a65d2
2:31 pmOther12 mincc0c8ffc
2:36 pmOther15 min876fc1f5
2:43 pmTraining and testing3 mine60191df
2:47 pmOther14 min1117e22b
2:55 pmOther14 mindd5a99a5
3:26 pmOther9 min63371636
5:08 pmNot stated11 min8833fc74
6:13 pmNot stated18 mincb350b85
6:15 pmDrone as first responder9 min84c13f24
6:36 pmDrone as first responder10 minac9e3380
7:02 pmOther18 min7be0253b
7:11 pmPatrol support12 min6459fe0b
8:04 pmNot stated13 min0fbaad4a
9:29 pmPatrol support11 min1e1b271a
9:55 pmNot stated8 min598c1118
10:10 pmNot stated12 mina03db869

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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