9
drone flights over Philadelphia that day.
11:26 am
first takeoff; the last was at 4:18 pm.
13 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Philadelphia police drones flew 9 times on Thursday 2 April 2026, the first at 11:26 am and the last at 4:18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:26 am | Training and testing | 1 min 01 s | b11db407 |
| 12:49 pm | Not stated | 13 min | c1a64968 |
| 2:16 pm | Patrol support | 14 min | aa1cc2b0 |
| 2:23 pm | Patrol support | 16 min | 006ea8da |
| 2:32 pm | Patrol support | 14 min | c2f327e0 |
| 2:39 pm | Patrol support | 13 min | 3528bce7 |
| 2:47 pm | Patrol support | 8 min | 2ce1ac54 |
| 3:07 pm | Patrol support | 9 min | 2f917b93 |
| 4:18 pm | Drone as first responder | 1 min 50 s | cf346a21 |
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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