drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

10:24 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:37 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 21 times on Saturday 13 June 2026, the first at 10:24 am and the last at 9:37 pm EDT, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.

21 drawable flights of 21. 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 responder81%
Training and testing10%
Patrol support5%
Call for service5%

Flights, in order

21 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
10:24 am	Drone as first responder	1 min 52 s	`bc981f51`
10:27 am	Drone as first responder	54 s	`1f104c70`
10:27 am	Drone as first responder	10 min	`f8d22beb`
10:30 am	Training and testing	48 s	`863929aa`
10:35 am	Drone as first responder	12 min	`b62ee47c`
10:38 am	Drone as first responder	10 min	`a37b6ac3`
10:49 am	Training and testing	1 min 57 s	`4fc44b57`
11:05 am	Drone as first responder	14 min	`46e9872f`
11:11 am	Drone as first responder	10 min	`4565f8ac`
11:28 am	Drone as first responder	10 min	`9da97b01`
11:50 am	Drone as first responder	9 min	`53bcb882`
12:43 pm	Drone as first responder	12 min	`efdbdf32`
12:47 pm	Drone as first responder	2 min 00 s	`28b17439`
2:04 pm	Drone as first responder	10 min	`6df00ca8`
4:25 pm	Patrol support	10 min	`9cc4af2c`
5:29 pm	Drone as first responder	18 min	`7daab6ce`
6:03 pm	Drone as first responder	16 min	`6388ed3c`
7:04 pm	Drone as first responder	14 min	`8c170c4a`
7:38 pm	Drone as first responder	17 min	`7a3a9e06`
8:25 pm	Call for service	12 min	`7efa61b9`
9:37 pm	Drone as first responder	9 min	`f8549696`

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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