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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · one day

Friday 8 May 2026

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

35

drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

11:07 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:06 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 35 times on Friday 8 May 2026, the first at 11:07 am and the last at 11:06 pm EDT, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.

35 drawable flights of 35. 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 responder71%
  2. Not stated20%
  3. Patrol support3%
  4. Other3%
  5. Call for service3%

Flights, in order

35 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
11:07 amDrone as first responder13 min800bfbf6
12:18 pmPatrol support12 minb1ffaf95
12:21 pmDrone as first responder7 min6e9b5783
12:34 pmDrone as first responder11 minfa96ebd6
1:14 pmDrone as first responder12 minf7138259
1:46 pmDrone as first responder14 mine62d267b
3:20 pmDrone as first responder9 min00407a9d
4:13 pmDrone as first responder16 min4f1e705e
5:16 pmDrone as first responder7 min4fe621f4
5:22 pmNot stated3 minf772e8b5
5:30 pmDrone as first responder8 min2c4cd1c2
5:43 pmDrone as first responder10 min833cf9f2
5:50 pmDrone as first responder12 minfe885ab0
5:59 pmDrone as first responder18 min15c3e2fe
6:19 pmDrone as first responder8 min1d15b35c
6:20 pmOther13 min3da0b258
6:40 pmDrone as first responder6 min271a59b6
6:48 pmNot stated6 minc8998dd5
7:04 pmDrone as first responder5 mindd86aad2
7:18 pmDrone as first responder15 minb75775f4
8:01 pmNot stated4 min29e98c15
8:07 pmDrone as first responder7 minca145415
8:07 pmDrone as first responder18 min90abbe02
8:26 pmDrone as first responder7 min341e6a34
8:44 pmNot stated13 mineab5ec31
8:55 pmDrone as first responder12 min539842e9
8:55 pmDrone as first responder12 min47acdecc
8:58 pmNot stated13 min6fab0861
9:18 pmDrone as first responder10 mind1f98c3e
9:21 pmNot stated16 min53d3eea4
9:35 pmDrone as first responder10 min872fe7f4
10:00 pmCall for service8 mind6273ddc
10:26 pmDrone as first responder18 min2feb7e8f
10:29 pmNot stated15 min90d1dc1f
11:06 pmDrone as first responder10 min89b1295a

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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