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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · one day

Friday 19 June 2026

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

24

drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

11:33 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:19 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 24 times on Friday 19 June 2026, the first at 11:33 am and the last at 11:19 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. Events50%
  2. Drone as first responder42%
  3. Call for service8%

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
11:33 amDrone as first responder7 min9e177caa
12:33 pmEvents16 min6995de5e
12:56 pmDrone as first responder7 min854edf80
2:05 pmDrone as first responder7 minf615baaf
2:23 pmDrone as first responder6 min96c03cd4
3:30 pmEvents15 min33895456
3:57 pmEvents6 mine03be0b9
4:15 pmDrone as first responder12 min1d5aff1e
4:21 pmEvents14 min6b0b5ca7
4:44 pmDrone as first responder3 min51c3ff73
4:57 pmDrone as first responder9 minf0d80a33
5:06 pmEvents23 mina8499fe9
6:11 pmEvents19 min18dfd2e6
6:15 pmDrone as first responder11 mine235d7ea
6:29 pmEvents25 min8e7c9234
6:31 pmCall for service13 minbc04ed30
6:40 pmDrone as first responder8 min20c77287
7:05 pmDrone as first responder12 minec26f9a6
7:30 pmCall for service11 min023176ed
7:36 pmEvents16 min75ae5ba9
7:37 pmEvents21 minc9ac4cf6
10:08 pmEvents17 min800a845e
10:30 pmEvents23 minc10015f5
11:19 pmEvents19 min437c6095

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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