9
drone flights over Philadelphia that day.
5:35 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 10:59 pm.
13 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Philadelphia police drones flew 9 times on Thursday 30 July 2026, the first at 5:35 pm and the last at 10:59 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
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5:35 pm | Patrol support | 9 min | cc2a511b |
| 6:30 pm | Call for service | 17 min | 6a1c5086 |
| 6:44 pm | Other | 16 min | a302e2eb |
| 7:01 pm | Other | 16 min | 0faecfab |
| 7:20 pm | Traffic and crashes | 2 min | f427e248 |
| 7:53 pm | Call for service | 13 min | d18d996d |
| 9:18 pm | Call for service | 13 min | b006de3f |
| 10:33 pm | Call for service | 14 min | eef874a0 |
| 10:59 pm | Call for service | 12 min | 3f5e3a93 |
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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