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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · one day

Saturday 9 May 2026

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

26

drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

11:10 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:22 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 26 times on Saturday 9 May 2026, the first at 11:10 am and the last at 11:22 pm EDT, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.

26 drawable flights of 26. 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 responder85%
  2. Patrol support12%
  3. Training and testing4%

Flights, in order

26 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
11:10 amDrone as first responder12 minf06c1768
11:52 amDrone as first responder14 mind7dd21c8
12:06 pmDrone as first responder12 min10c9ffc6
1:47 pmDrone as first responder11 minc4cde55e
2:43 pmDrone as first responder15 min6644029d
3:43 pmDrone as first responder16 mine1f03dd3
3:59 pmDrone as first responder17 minfc2fe148
4:20 pmDrone as first responder11 min9b9ff401
7:13 pmTraining and testing1 min 03 s4193a7e5
7:44 pmDrone as first responder4 min003ff04d
8:10 pmDrone as first responder10 min37bd86f2
8:30 pmPatrol support10 mine3e5e1d4
8:39 pmPatrol support11 min4590605b
8:42 pmPatrol support16 min115a77bf
8:53 pmDrone as first responder11 minbe12b8f4
9:20 pmDrone as first responder15 min7636eed6
9:21 pmDrone as first responder12 minf178ab23
9:22 pmDrone as first responder12 minedb1ae63
9:48 pmDrone as first responder14 min3410236b
10:26 pmDrone as first responder17 mine985d323
10:37 pmDrone as first responder13 min21cf49b1
10:37 pmDrone as first responder6 mindc2dfd3f
10:46 pmDrone as first responder15 minfdb48346
11:00 pmDrone as first responder9 min2698b642
11:05 pmDrone as first responder6 min0e2449f3
11:22 pmDrone as first responder11 min04d2d0cb

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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