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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · one day

Sunday 30 August 2026

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

58

drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

6:21 am

first takeoff; the last was at 5:12 pm.

19 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 58 times on Sunday 30 August 2026, the first at 6:21 am and the last at 5:12 pm EDT, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.

58 drawable flights of 58. 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. Events98%
  2. Not stated2%

Flights, in order

58 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
6:21 amEvents19 min79800975
6:38 amEvents18 min9c1bea5e
6:47 amEvents21 min8fc50862
7:01 amEvents17 min3f191a27
7:09 amEvents22 min85774874
7:09 amEvents19 min46af5b4e
7:29 amEvents20 mincc404cad
7:50 amEvents17 min3f44ce59
7:57 amEvents17 min75cb3f2d
8:03 amEvents18 min68470171
8:09 amEvents20 min0e9d9207
8:32 amEvents18 min9f2d2688
8:43 amEvents21 mina870669c
8:48 amEvents19 min3255cd7f
8:53 amEvents21 min80d0694b
9:14 amEvents22 min2eee6071
9:16 amEvents18 min4fce8f1d
9:23 amEvents19 min8d6d35c5
9:39 amEvents19 min6a8541a5
9:43 amEvents17 min4ea7b1ce
9:49 amNot stated23 min74c96260
10:02 amEvents21 minf95000ca
10:02 amEvents16 minf2c8346c
10:29 amEvents18 minfe4be389
10:36 amEvents20 mina8630719
10:43 amEvents21 min42095a65
10:48 amEvents39 s72f0445a
10:57 amEvents23 min0d5c9a07
11:10 amEvents18 min9657b3e3
11:14 amEvents21 mina6b80cf3
11:29 amEvents20 min14a8fb84
11:55 amEvents19 min47086dea
12:03 pmEvents18 min87cf1ee6
12:17 pmEvents18 min444333f9
12:19 pmEvents19 mindd0d5c39
12:26 pmEvents20 min5fe8d139
12:39 pmEvents18 min75b1c218
12:46 pmEvents18 min348f810b
12:59 pmEvents21 min9ab0f7e2
1:19 pmEvents15 min7f0d6e7c
1:22 pmEvents19 min8f8595a5
1:31 pmEvents23 min59c8186b
1:47 pmEvents21 min69ddd9c8
1:55 pmEvents18 mincf676662
2:16 pmEvents18 min45d8c934
2:21 pmEvents21 mine2aa822e
2:39 pmEvents22 min97a6ab5d
2:51 pmEvents14 min6c098dff
2:52 pmEvents18 mindefbf09a
3:07 pmEvents16 mincc9ee282
3:08 pmEvents16 min1bf6338e
3:23 pmEvents16 min861dd7b2
3:31 pmEvents20 min01b221da
3:34 pmEvents19 mina6210238
3:54 pmEvents17 minb23074fa
3:54 pmEvents17 min6c689bad
3:58 pmEvents21 min68af2eea
5:12 pmEvents6 minf5094f5c

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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