drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

10:15 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:18 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 25 times on Wednesday 3 June 2026, the first at 10:15 am and the last at 11:18 pm EDT, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.

25 drawable flights of 25. 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Drone as first responder64%
Call for service32%
Training and testing4%

Flights, in order

25 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
10:15 am	Drone as first responder	17 min	`27129607`
10:23 am	Training and testing	3 min	`157c6a37`
10:47 am	Call for service	10 min	`36339d86`
11:07 am	Call for service	12 min	`2cc36a07`
11:09 am	Drone as first responder	17 min	`3cc5cfe6`
11:30 am	Call for service	13 min	`090fdd01`
11:59 am	Drone as first responder	23 min	`602b4dea`
12:35 pm	Call for service	12 min	`e5adb1d5`
1:16 pm	Call for service	14 min	`f6ed8d72`
1:39 pm	Call for service	7 min	`afcb9f5d`
2:28 pm	Call for service	10 min	`72de284e`
3:10 pm	Drone as first responder	10 min	`fe613ef2`
4:01 pm	Call for service	10 min	`062a9135`
5:29 pm	Drone as first responder	11 min	`0b577ae0`
6:00 pm	Drone as first responder	8 min	`56bcbea2`
6:20 pm	Drone as first responder	14 min	`de707a3c`
6:49 pm	Drone as first responder	8 min	`57338b89`
7:04 pm	Drone as first responder	14 min	`86b853d2`
7:21 pm	Drone as first responder	10 min	`f0ff40fb`
8:03 pm	Drone as first responder	8 min	`933eb73c`
9:57 pm	Drone as first responder	8 min	`5994b10b`
10:02 pm	Drone as first responder	17 min	`66fa765f`
10:21 pm	Drone as first responder	9 min	`4849d01b`
11:03 pm	Drone as first responder	10 min	`d15e5961`
11:18 pm	Drone as first responder	17 min	`627173b2`

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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