8
drone flights over Philadelphia that day.
10:23 am
first takeoff; the last was at 10:47 pm.
7 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Philadelphia police drones flew 8 times on Thursday 10 September 2026, the first at 10:23 am and the last at 10:47 pm EDT, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, EDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
8 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) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:23 am | Call for service | 9 min | 60d919c0 |
| 10:55 am | Call for service | 7 min | 082c7a0a |
| 11:53 am | Call for service | 19 min | 16a9c608 |
| 3:26 pm | Call for service | 5 min | dfad2985 |
| 3:36 pm | Call for service | 4 min | a4882639 |
| 10:03 pm | Call for service | 6 min | 297b2839 |
| 10:43 pm | Call for service | 7 min | 8a063073 |
| 10:47 pm | Not stated | 14 min | 6ef62157 |
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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