8
drone flights over Philadelphia that day.
11:03 am
first takeoff; the last was at 4:36 pm.
16 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Philadelphia police drones flew 8 times on Tuesday 19 May 2026, the first at 11:03 am and the last at 4:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:03 am | Drone as first responder | 17 min | f861c967 |
| 11:56 am | Drone as first responder | 17 min | 7523a5c7 |
| 12:09 pm | Call for service | 7 min | abde8d47 |
| 1:58 pm | Call for service | 5 min | eda16ae7 |
| 3:07 pm | Drone as first responder | 18 min | 1063b393 |
| 3:42 pm | Drone as first responder | 18 min | 6535887f |
| 4:16 pm | Drone as first responder | 16 min | df6fd571 |
| 4:36 pm | Call for service | 8 min | 9abffc74 |
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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