9
drone flights over Philadelphia that day.
10:04 am
first takeoff; the last was at 3:40 pm.
9 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Philadelphia police drones flew 9 times on Wednesday 11 March 2026, the first at 10:04 am and the last at 3:40 pm EDT, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, EDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
9 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 (EDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:04 am | Call for service | 13 min | c0787578 |
| 10:23 am | Call for service | 5 min | 56ae3c48 |
| 11:26 am | Other | 4 min | 9a5ea80a |
| 1:09 pm | Other | 5 min | d3796a1f |
| 1:33 pm | Call for service | 8 min | b5643e5b |
| 2:10 pm | Drone as first responder | 12 min | 6f4a089f |
| 2:57 pm | Call for service | 9 min | a9fb11c8 |
| 3:15 pm | Other | 11 min | 93ff12d2 |
| 3:40 pm | Drone as first responder | 11 min | db6bf32f |
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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