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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · one day

Tuesday 26 May 2026

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

24

drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

10:23 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:47 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 24 times on Tuesday 26 May 2026, the first at 10:23 am and the last at 11:47 pm EDT, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.

24 drawable flights of 24. 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 responder54%
  2. Call for service25%
  3. Not stated17%
  4. Other4%

Flights, in order

24 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
10:23 amNot stated10 min71f4d534
10:38 amNot stated5 min28f8c242
10:45 amNot stated11 min1ab77fcb
10:56 amDrone as first responder7 min6162ba14
11:20 amNot stated7 minc1098781
11:38 amDrone as first responder15 min9262be60
11:53 amOther10 min83b7f40c
1:42 pmDrone as first responder5 min77f0e5a8
1:53 pmDrone as first responder7 min03c11332
2:06 pmDrone as first responder16 min73811c3d
2:23 pmDrone as first responder19 min2a054ec7
2:31 pmCall for service10 min7c1eaf9a
2:44 pmDrone as first responder8 mine420c275
3:17 pmCall for service9 min5ac2bb9b
5:14 pmDrone as first responder18 mina204d354
6:15 pmCall for service12 minc53f62fd
6:23 pmDrone as first responder12 min03379e28
6:39 pmDrone as first responder14 min7803f624
6:49 pmCall for service12 minb2e895b7
7:58 pmDrone as first responder18 mind9e3008c
9:16 pmDrone as first responder15 min98f6524b
9:46 pmDrone as first responder19 mina2a31f2e
10:36 pmCall for service13 minbeae36dd
11:47 pmCall for service5 minc15829d6

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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