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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · one day

Friday 6 February 2026

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

35

drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

10:14 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:41 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 35 times on Friday 6 February 2026, the first at 10:14 am and the last at 10:41 pm EST, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.

35 drawable flights of 35. 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. Other49%
  2. Training and testing17%
  3. Drone as first responder17%
  4. Call for service9%
  5. Not stated6%
  6. Patrol support3%

Flights, in order

35 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
10:14 amOther16 minef0cbe4a
10:17 amOther11 minacad50ee
10:30 amOther7 min5e4db4cd
10:31 amOther11 min2fbcdffd
10:40 amOther9 min10993a03
10:57 amOther9 mindcffc6e1
11:06 amOther12 min61f753ea
11:31 amOther15 minc49ffeac
12:12 pmOther8 min322a2064
12:33 pmOther8 mind4e571fc
12:56 pmTraining and testing2 min509a633d
1:05 pmDrone as first responder9 min9a91e069
1:15 pmOther17 min4881960b
1:27 pmOther11 min060396a2
1:53 pmOther13 min343bcb40
2:01 pmOther8 min7c4a4da7
2:11 pmOther12 minb9ed4f0e
2:37 pmOther8 min185df3dc
2:41 pmTraining and testing11 min2cab01f3
2:58 pmOther10 min367c0aeb
3:59 pmTraining and testing5 min59d3001d
3:59 pmTraining and testing5 min1913228f
5:22 pmCall for service11 min8496572e
5:31 pmNot stated8 min73c4703e
5:50 pmDrone as first responder9 min67bf360c
6:21 pmDrone as first responder14 min041a0a07
7:05 pmDrone as first responder12 minb8f90c99
7:35 pmCall for service16 min8c114296
8:02 pmPatrol support14 min0b4565ab
8:28 pmNot stated10 min050b2959
8:45 pmDrone as first responder14 min265246e5
9:38 pmTraining and testing3 minbb58cf7d
10:17 pmDrone as first responder14 min21684faa
10:33 pmCall for service12 min689b6160
10:41 pmTraining and testing2 min843bf712

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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