7
drone flights over Philadelphia that day.
1:32 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 8:30 pm.
13 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Philadelphia police drones flew 7 times on Wednesday 18 February 2026, the first at 1:32 pm and the last at 8:30 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
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:32 pm | Call for service | 13 min | 5674b5b6 |
| 6:06 pm | Not stated | 15 min | fc04d023 |
| 6:34 pm | Not stated | 14 min | 25c74467 |
| 7:12 pm | Call for service | 12 min | 868f235e |
| 7:49 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 2016afc3 |
| 8:23 pm | Call for service | 15 min | eaa180ec |
| 8:30 pm | Call for service | 5 min | f7a00e93 |
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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