6
drone flights over Philadelphia that day.
1:33 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 3:44 pm.
10 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Philadelphia police drones flew 6 times on Thursday 26 February 2026, the first at 1:33 pm and the last at 3:44 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:33 pm | Call for service | 14 min | c32dc57d |
| 2:07 pm | Call for service | 12 min | cc03abc2 |
| 2:37 pm | Call for service | 6 min | a38ebe3d |
| 2:50 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 6e184e85 |
| 3:17 pm | Call for service | 9 min | 58333590 |
| 3:44 pm | Call for service | 9 min | 2c4f808f |
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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