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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · one day

Thursday 4 June 2026

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

30

drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

10:47 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:44 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 30 times on Thursday 4 June 2026, the first at 10:47 am and the last at 11:44 pm EDT, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.

30 drawable flights of 30. 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 responder53%
  2. Call for service23%
  3. Training and testing10%
  4. Not stated10%
  5. Patrol support3%

Flights, in order

30 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
10:47 amDrone as first responder19 min39840164
10:48 amCall for service13 min6f3acf96
10:57 amCall for service15 min76b31f34
11:02 amCall for service10 min79716479
11:08 amDrone as first responder17 minc7bfd1ec
11:15 amCall for service14 min090604de
11:33 amDrone as first responder10 min2de6c049
11:36 amCall for service15 mined4e1524
1:01 pmDrone as first responder8 minedd777de
1:26 pmCall for service12 min13ec29c0
1:40 pmDrone as first responder15 mina66fac88
2:28 pmDrone as first responder13 min414c734f
2:58 pmPatrol support6 min4ef7aaa2
3:21 pmDrone as first responder18 min104fb339
4:01 pmCall for service7 min728d3478
4:23 pmDrone as first responder4 minc41c9a4f
5:27 pmDrone as first responder7 mindd929126
5:45 pmTraining and testing1 min 12 sbd107ef7
7:28 pmDrone as first responder10 min2793151f
7:40 pmTraining and testing1 min 15 sf3afe338
8:20 pmDrone as first responder3 min076c4368
8:44 pmDrone as first responder12 min475af904
9:04 pmNot stated9 mindfc809f6
9:14 pmDrone as first responder11 min5ef2da0d
9:19 pmNot stated14 min100773c8
9:29 pmDrone as first responder18 min2ca4c2a5
9:31 pmNot stated8 minb4fa7858
9:54 pmDrone as first responder17 min4c1820e8
10:44 pmTraining and testing5 min3c492ebd
11:44 pmDrone as first responder10 min9627120b

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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