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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · one day

Saturday 4 July 2026

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

35

drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

7:20 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:57 pm.

19 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 35 times on Saturday 4 July 2026, the first at 7:20 am and the last at 8:57 pm EDT, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.

35 drawable flights of 35. 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. Events83%
  2. Drone as first responder6%
  3. Call for service3%
  4. Other3%
  5. Not stated3%
  6. Training and testing3%

Flights, in order

35 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
7:20 amEvents5 min4349c944
7:28 amEvents19 min2f9d4e84
8:14 amEvents21 min30e54a99
8:39 amEvents21 min36d40676
8:57 amEvents18 mind8d69de7
9:31 amEvents16 minf84cd9f4
10:10 amEvents19 min78a177ad
10:25 amEvents21 minbbe98ccd
11:05 amEvents24 min1be36ccc
11:20 amEvents19 minb26bf811
11:54 amEvents19 min14a1e0e9
12:22 pmEvents18 min11c10a54
12:43 pmEvents21 min428215fa
1:26 pmEvents19 min626368fb
1:40 pmDrone as first responder12 min9ef8c617
2:10 pmEvents19 mindc4ae1c6
2:39 pmCall for service9 min68ebe86a
3:21 pmEvents16 minaefb6f32
3:36 pmEvents20 min9fe7015d
3:47 pmOther11 min426110c9
4:04 pmEvents23 minea73cb2d
4:11 pmDrone as first responder9 min965018a7
4:37 pmEvents22 minf727def3
5:06 pmEvents22 min19ffa183
5:14 pmNot stated9 min710dfd65
5:30 pmEvents21 min29743e03
5:52 pmEvents20 min8613df49
6:14 pmEvents21 min09a55350
6:36 pmEvents21 mine62f9acc
6:58 pmEvents23 min92c6238f
7:21 pmEvents21 min116aa606
7:43 pmEvents23 minba7b5b65
8:09 pmEvents18 minb67dd5c3
8:29 pmEvents16 min7dc4a8ca
8:57 pmTraining and testing1 min 09 scb6c8c91

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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