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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · one day

Friday 22 May 2026

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

14

drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

1:51 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 10:57 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 14 times on Friday 22 May 2026, the first at 1:51 pm and the last at 10:57 pm EDT, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.

14 drawable flights of 14. 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 responder57%
  2. Call for service29%
  3. Training and testing7%
  4. Not stated7%

Flights, in order

14 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
1:51 pmCall for service8 min7459af60
3:34 pmCall for service7 minb6df021e
6:53 pmDrone as first responder13 min5db6a78e
7:11 pmDrone as first responder15 minfbeab373
7:44 pmCall for service17 minf20399ff
7:54 pmDrone as first responder7 minaa498f43
8:30 pmDrone as first responder13 mina7837ac0
8:36 pmDrone as first responder6 min1b991faa
9:06 pmDrone as first responder13 min6859ec92
9:57 pmTraining and testing4 minf3f535fe
10:15 pmCall for service4 min32ef71e9
10:16 pmDrone as first responder7 min5a939939
10:39 pmNot stated9 mind38e030e
10:57 pmDrone as first responder8 min68133556

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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