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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · one day

Saturday 29 August 2026

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

54

drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

10:45 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:05 pm.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 54 times on Saturday 29 August 2026, the first at 10:45 am and the last at 9:05 pm EDT, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.

54 drawable flights of 54. 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 service43%
  2. Events26%
  3. Other17%
  4. Drone as first responder9%
  5. Patrol support4%
  6. Not stated2%

Flights, in order

54 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
10:45 amCall for service10 minb7289850
10:55 amCall for service15 mine1ceee61
11:02 amEvents11 min234741ed
11:05 amDrone as first responder15 min0f52fe4e
11:08 amCall for service14 min4c24131b
11:11 amCall for service14 minfec08b1a
11:28 amCall for service6 mina8b95537
11:39 amCall for service18 min67f7c3f9
12:00 pmDrone as first responder13 minea126728
12:07 pmEvents21 min34f04ced
12:15 pmCall for service13 min0781308f
12:27 pmDrone as first responder21 min10c833ba
12:37 pmOther19 minf9268dae
12:52 pmOther17 min900ae782
12:58 pmEvents20 mine9a289a1
12:59 pmDrone as first responder17 min412c23e6
1:04 pmOther19 mina2332857
1:14 pmDrone as first responder7 minbdf7add4
1:19 pmOther19 minb294afb2
1:34 pmOther21 minc43bc66f
1:51 pmOther18 min12c5db43
1:55 pmCall for service16 min1f827174
2:07 pmOther18 minc982f2a3
2:21 pmCall for service8 min96f48144
2:48 pmEvents17 min142ec1e2
3:03 pmCall for service12 min6022bfdc
3:07 pmNot stated23 min27cdeb42
3:33 pmEvents18 min04de9725
3:39 pmCall for service7 min807645ad
4:12 pmCall for service14 min9ac44e73
4:15 pmEvents21 mina6b53763
4:58 pmCall for service7 mineeca401d
5:00 pmEvents21 min0bb7d564
5:21 pmEvents22 mind29b535d
5:42 pmPatrol support9 min843fe7a8
5:45 pmEvents25 min6136d525
5:58 pmPatrol support13 min4b2e23d3
6:12 pmEvents21 min28ff686d
6:22 pmCall for service9 min57200aff
6:37 pmEvents21 minaf6e12f7
7:00 pmEvents19 mine36bca48
7:03 pmCall for service11 min1533435b
7:22 pmEvents23 minff09c8d9
7:25 pmOther13 mind88caa91
7:33 pmOther6 mindc2db01f
7:47 pmEvents19 minfc35b203
7:48 pmCall for service7 min56c00196
7:59 pmCall for service7 min5847ec9b
8:07 pmCall for service11 min839f504e
8:11 pmCall for service4 min2bf04bb5
8:34 pmCall for service13 min3c4045e1
8:45 pmCall for service9 min1a964dff
9:05 pmCall for service12 min3a3d9bdf
9:05 pmCall for service10 mindf0a05b0

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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