CityDroneWatch
  1. CityDroneWatch
  2. Pennsylvania
  3. Philadelphia
  4. September 2026
  5. 4

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · one day

Friday 4 September 2026

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

37

drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

10:09 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:58 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 37 times on Friday 4 September 2026, the first at 10:09 am and the last at 11:58 pm EDT, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.

37 drawable flights of 37. 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service70%
  2. Other14%
  3. Patrol support8%
  4. Training and testing5%
  5. Search3%

Flights, in order

37 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
10:09 amCall for service18 min28d5c5dd
10:45 amSearch19 minffc3a43f
11:23 amCall for service12 min39793147
12:03 pmCall for service16 mined1487cb
12:27 pmCall for service16 min563176d7
12:57 pmCall for service15 minfb92edd8
1:03 pmCall for service8 minab3810dd
1:04 pmCall for service7 min2bfbe108
1:12 pmCall for service8 minbb905d14
1:38 pmCall for service14 min45fb3e88
2:13 pmCall for service8 min69982988
2:50 pmCall for service16 minc8a5b3ba
3:18 pmPatrol support7 mina1c6ddad
4:14 pmPatrol support5 minba6c76ec
4:47 pmCall for service12 min9bd66dd0
5:06 pmCall for service14 minc3334da8
5:20 pmCall for service10 mindec63e26
5:35 pmCall for service8 min2d5624cf
6:25 pmCall for service11 min965bd0fb
6:57 pmCall for service13 min4af94043
7:04 pmCall for service14 min34c3ba83
7:20 pmCall for service14 min3c4e905e
7:35 pmCall for service11 mine5906acd
7:53 pmCall for service6 mindd11c804
7:57 pmTraining and testing43 sca4e491a
8:47 pmOther15 min261a928d
8:57 pmCall for service18 mincb13e9af
9:51 pmCall for service12 min33ab83e3
10:25 pmCall for service14 minbe42ec68
11:00 pmOther12 min5e255841
11:07 pmOther18 min974089b2
11:21 pmPatrol support18 mind84a9452
11:33 pmOther15 mincf2836a0
11:39 pmCall for service16 mina685d96b
11:51 pmOther11 mind6bae35e
11:58 pmTraining and testing1 min 10 s53bd7adb
11:58 pmCall for service16 mindefdced8

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.

Corrections and questions: see the about page. See about this site for the sources and the publication rules.