7
drone flights over Philadelphia that day.
5:34 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 9:29 pm.
11 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Philadelphia police drones flew 7 times on Wednesday 22 July 2026, the first at 5:34 pm and the last at 9:29 pm EDT, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, EDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5:34 pm | Call for service | 9 min | b213706a |
| 5:58 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 37e11c3d |
| 7:00 pm | Call for service | 6 min | 0ea6bc87 |
| 7:51 pm | Call for service | 11 min | a748586d |
| 8:25 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 33 s | 25ae8a2f |
| 9:13 pm | Call for service | 12 min | 301ceff7 |
| 9:29 pm | Training and testing | 16 min | 7b8c68c9 |
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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