8
drone flights over Philadelphia that day.
10:41 am
first takeoff; the last was at 8:15 pm.
7 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Philadelphia police drones flew 8 times on Friday 13 March 2026, the first at 10:41 am and the last at 8:15 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
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:41 am | Call for service | 7 min | a58b853d |
| 12:45 pm | Call for service | 6 min | adf0b4f3 |
| 1:00 pm | Other | 7 min | 55f714d9 |
| 2:14 pm | Call for service | 9 min | 2affc649 |
| 3:52 pm | Drone as first responder | 9 min | 47346159 |
| 7:17 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 39 s | 061aab3a |
| 8:07 pm | Training and testing | 7 min | 4d9ae31a |
| 8:15 pm | Training and testing | 13 min | d2835d57 |
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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