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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · one day

Wednesday 12 August 2026

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

38

drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

10:23 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:20 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 38 times on Wednesday 12 August 2026, the first at 10:23 am and the last at 11:20 pm EDT, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.

38 drawable flights of 38. 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. Call for service76%
  2. Other11%
  3. Patrol support5%
  4. Training and testing3%
  5. Traffic and crashes3%
  6. Not stated3%

Flights, in order

38 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
10:23 amOther15 mine7b6c2ae
10:47 amCall for service9 minf7fb06d1
11:50 amCall for service13 minabf5871c
12:02 pmOther17 mina4da215e
12:17 pmCall for service7 minf483ed24
12:27 pmCall for service11 min6dc418f1
1:31 pmCall for service13 min149b2eb7
5:30 pmCall for service11 min1df4ed8b
5:41 pmCall for service17 min35427ea6
5:45 pmCall for service11 min08a1f11c
5:55 pmCall for service8 min99ec474a
5:59 pmCall for service11 min5f64a057
6:05 pmCall for service7 min366f7efe
6:49 pmCall for service13 minfad18263
6:50 pmCall for service8 min5f26a9d2
6:59 pmCall for service7 min066b3ae2
7:10 pmTraining and testing42 s865afc5e
7:11 pmCall for service12 min6d4b7021
7:22 pmTraffic and crashes12 min6f2c3446
7:26 pmCall for service15 min533db6ba
7:43 pmCall for service10 minffb60d9a
7:49 pmCall for service8 min04395e70
7:56 pmOther7 minf1e1b924
8:23 pmNot stated14 minb3ad6b68
8:37 pmPatrol support15 mine8e08234
8:48 pmCall for service10 min33cf7a2b
8:52 pmCall for service17 min15c6dd40
9:05 pmCall for service11 min488d47e6
9:23 pmPatrol support15 min3138b82d
9:47 pmCall for service14 min3a0e49a7
10:00 pmOther13 min30aa988c
10:13 pmCall for service12 min91d358af
10:16 pmCall for service17 mincdea5a71
10:21 pmCall for service14 minbcf01313
10:42 pmCall for service11 minea6f40da
10:44 pmCall for service12 min48021d89
11:11 pmCall for service9 minb940827b
11:20 pmCall for service17 min4ed5fad1

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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