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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · one day

Friday 12 June 2026

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

31

drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

9:19 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:59 pm.

19 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 31 times on Friday 12 June 2026, the first at 9:19 am and the last at 10:59 pm EDT, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.

31 drawable flights of 31. 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. Events68%
  2. Drone as first responder13%
  3. Training and testing10%
  4. Call for service6%
  5. Not stated3%

Flights, in order

31 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
9:19 amDrone as first responder9 min4a7dd1cd
10:52 amDrone as first responder9 minb02aec67
11:24 amDrone as first responder7 min1724ae80
11:42 amCall for service3 min89787112
11:52 amCall for service7 minb3fb7682
12:02 pmNot stated1 min 37 s5531caad
12:22 pmTraining and testing12 min4fdc9589
12:32 pmTraining and testing18 min37efd01e
12:57 pmDrone as first responder14 mina4788ca3
1:27 pmTraining and testing3 min05de2d8c
1:51 pmEvents54 s9f14a1a7
1:53 pmEvents51 s44a77988
1:56 pmEvents37 s3a3f79bb
4:11 pmEvents24 minc60c0601
4:35 pmEvents18 min6f576310
4:54 pmEvents21 mind3d55240
5:28 pmEvents19 mine719ab28
5:48 pmEvents22 min61e6b702
6:10 pmEvents22 min3278dfae
6:32 pmEvents23 min10fb3a85
6:55 pmEvents19 min390974a3
7:44 pmEvents20 min448bdaa5
8:16 pmEvents22 minf969d015
8:40 pmEvents19 min792423fa
9:01 pmEvents22 min0a599591
9:21 pmEvents20 min427497eb
9:39 pmEvents21 min6c28eee1
10:00 pmEvents22 min61a3dc45
10:22 pmEvents18 mind8fd5558
10:38 pmEvents20 mind7581fdb
10:59 pmEvents21 min156ec74e

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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