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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · one day

Tuesday 25 August 2026

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

40

drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

10:31 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:01 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 40 times on Tuesday 25 August 2026, the first at 10:31 am and the last at 11:01 pm EDT, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.

40 drawable flights of 40. 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 service88%
  2. Training and testing5%
  3. Patrol support2%
  4. Other2%
  5. Events2%

Flights, in order

40 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
10:31 amCall for service12 min61a53295
11:53 amCall for service16 mind845716a
12:10 pmCall for service12 min109bc4ea
12:24 pmCall for service11 minf4561630
12:32 pmCall for service15 min4f124832
12:36 pmTraining and testing1 min 07 s7ff73fe0
12:38 pmTraining and testing2 mine8f8f5f2
12:44 pmCall for service10 min1e1388eb
1:15 pmCall for service7 min3ab2dbbd
1:31 pmCall for service17 min0629aa1e
1:43 pmPatrol support15 min4923f360
1:54 pmCall for service18 mincba531df
2:07 pmCall for service18 min78177c72
2:18 pmCall for service16 min3b4e9fbf
2:29 pmCall for service16 min1a2cb566
3:01 pmCall for service20 min299c7a37
3:04 pmCall for service16 minab2d1286
3:26 pmCall for service13 minee5a0dc1
3:59 pmCall for service16 min04bc7d71
4:11 pmCall for service17 mind2a11a0a
5:38 pmCall for service11 min000c3d07
5:40 pmCall for service9 mind9f5d301
5:44 pmCall for service10 min5e77ea63
5:45 pmCall for service9 mind2b1fc8c
6:04 pmCall for service19 min3ccfb5d0
6:24 pmOther7 mine7503379
7:21 pmCall for service6 min980df9db
8:01 pmCall for service16 min6188f0c1
8:06 pmEvents15 min65bae6b9
9:02 pmCall for service7 min8d6a55fd
9:10 pmCall for service11 min65edd1b5
9:24 pmCall for service17 min79292dda
9:26 pmCall for service16 mincada7dbc
9:44 pmCall for service11 min0d18b73d
10:01 pmCall for service15 min463286d2
10:09 pmCall for service15 min681d55e8
10:12 pmCall for service11 min95613983
10:44 pmCall for service17 min85c37471
10:47 pmCall for service7 min7c09e15b
11:01 pmCall for service7 min985cac97

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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