drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

7:47 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:06 pm.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 21 times on Thursday 2 July 2026, the first at 7:47 am and the last at 11:06 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

Events52%
Drone as first responder33%
Call for service10%
Not stated5%

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
7:47 am	Events	22 min	`663fd125`
8:52 am	Events	22 min	`6f354424`
9:38 am	Events	20 min	`7222a8fb`
10:45 am	Events	21 min	`ae196a60`
11:22 am	Events	19 min	`48a5bd02`
11:39 am	Events	24 min	`632b8e0c`
12:26 pm	Events	24 min	`dc72a3b4`
12:52 pm	Events	24 min	`9a006287`
1:16 pm	Events	17 min	`91097031`
1:33 pm	Drone as first responder	8 min	`7c85058f`
1:55 pm	Drone as first responder	8 min	`ebddf0b4`
2:13 pm	Drone as first responder	10 min	`4881d6e3`
2:13 pm	Events	23 min	`8d1992fd`
3:58 pm	Events	22 min	`48917783`
4:22 pm	Call for service	11 min	`3bef1dae`
5:09 pm	Call for service	10 min	`e18c6503`
5:31 pm	Drone as first responder	6 min	`23cc740d`
6:17 pm	Drone as first responder	8 min	`c7267004`
6:39 pm	Not stated	8 min	`1cff073d`
10:27 pm	Drone as first responder	14 min	`b423a7bd`
11:06 pm	Drone as first responder	16 min	`0ed1750a`

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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