drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

10:38 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:07 pm.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 17 times on Tuesday 14 July 2026, the first at 10:38 am and the last at 9:07 pm EDT, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.

17 drawable flights of 17. 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

Call for service53%
Events41%
Other6%

Flights, in order

17 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
10:38 am	Call for service	10 min	`573b3b21`
11:04 am	Call for service	15 min	`72deb5a0`
11:21 am	Call for service	9 min	`4efea8d8`
11:53 am	Call for service	12 min	`db9a5cf8`
2:11 pm	Events	19 min	`19ce77cc`
2:33 pm	Events	22 min	`792bb6be`
2:56 pm	Events	22 min	`9e45aef3`
3:00 pm	Events	20 min	`6efc413e`
3:19 pm	Events	20 min	`019c81f7`
4:14 pm	Events	19 min	`56333085`
5:05 pm	Events	19 min	`5fbdbae6`
7:23 pm	Call for service	17 min	`c1a0453c`
8:05 pm	Call for service	15 min	`99c81b8f`
8:21 pm	Call for service	10 min	`73aeffbf`
8:36 pm	Call for service	10 min	`44a8381a`
8:48 pm	Other	7 min	`eae08de6`
9:07 pm	Call for service	15 min	`d67a06ea`

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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