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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · one day

Wednesday 24 June 2026

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

37

drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

10:39 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:24 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 37 times on Wednesday 24 June 2026, the first at 10:39 am and the last at 11:24 pm EDT, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.

37 drawable flights of 37. 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. Call for service35%
  2. Drone as first responder16%
  3. Not stated16%
  4. Patrol support14%
  5. Events11%
  6. Other8%

Flights, in order

37 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
10:39 amOther1 min 23 s8c32f524
11:04 amDrone as first responder16 min4431dc59
11:12 amPatrol support9 minbc6aa397
11:13 amOther21 min6f9062dd
11:20 amPatrol support3 mina33b3562
11:24 amPatrol support7 min66f7cd80
11:29 amPatrol support14 min428cbfe4
11:48 amPatrol support11 mine9bf902d
1:05 pmNot stated5 min011a0f8d
1:20 pmCall for service12 min0ca6e3f9
1:50 pmNot stated15 min1e5d695e
1:56 pmDrone as first responder11 min1c2d2f47
2:00 pmDrone as first responder10 min3ac7bc5b
2:11 pmNot stated10 min96fac045
2:40 pmCall for service5 min5bfc7624
2:52 pmNot stated13 min8a12b4c9
3:11 pmDrone as first responder18 minabddec41
3:34 pmNot stated16 min31563b4d
3:44 pmDrone as first responder11 mind27121ba
4:20 pmNot stated8 min400c73f6
4:36 pmCall for service8 min3f9f88c7
5:02 pmEvents23 min58385d30
5:09 pmCall for service16 minb6036a5a
5:56 pmOther9 min5b2ed935
6:25 pmCall for service17 minb087030e
6:43 pmCall for service9 min04218a45
7:00 pmEvents20 min01ca0e69
7:04 pmCall for service13 min7cb8e010
7:26 pmEvents23 minf474b4ea
7:27 pmCall for service9 min7bc87b75
7:37 pmCall for service11 min58b16fe4
7:58 pmCall for service9 min9b177fb4
8:18 pmCall for service14 minafbf939f
9:13 pmCall for service8 minbc23a2d1
9:38 pmCall for service14 minc41da43b
11:14 pmDrone as first responder16 minfe14b23c
11:24 pmEvents16 min8219ebba

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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