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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · one day

Saturday 28 March 2026

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

13

drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

1:53 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 10:33 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 13 times on Saturday 28 March 2026, the first at 1:53 pm and the last at 10:33 pm EDT, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.

13 drawable flights of 13. 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, EDT.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Drone as first responder54%
  2. Other15%
  3. Training and testing15%
  4. Call for service8%
  5. Not stated8%

Flights, in order

13 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)PurposeAirborneFlight
1:53 pmDrone as first responder11 mine31336b7
6:14 pmDrone as first responder14 min2c5e93d7
6:19 pmCall for service14 min5d565161
6:42 pmOther5 min9cab7bf9
7:33 pmDrone as first responder7 minb3234a39
7:50 pmDrone as first responder8 min893a3950
8:06 pmDrone as first responder18 min995fe200
8:27 pmNot stated15 mina9041066
8:29 pmDrone as first responder13 min985e4aa7
9:13 pmDrone as first responder8 mine64fc35d
9:23 pmOther14 mineff51757
10:26 pmTraining and testing6 mincc9c432a
10:33 pmTraining and testing7 mind740232b

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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