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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · one day

Friday 18 September 2026

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

37

drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

10:21 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:59 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 37 times on Friday 18 September 2026, the first at 10:21 am and the last at 11:59 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service92%
  2. Traffic and crashes5%
  3. Patrol support3%

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
10:21 amCall for service6 min74ea9390
11:26 amCall for service15 min17b10fbf
11:48 amCall for service13 mine7346496
12:04 pmCall for service14 min209aa699
12:31 pmCall for service9 minae275a01
12:47 pmCall for service13 min03638f39
1:08 pmCall for service12 min692780c0
2:08 pmCall for service7 minc203b6e7
2:21 pmCall for service6 min1410007e
2:30 pmCall for service13 minab3b61f8
3:20 pmCall for service11 minf7ffc612
3:26 pmPatrol support12 min83e9dded
3:45 pmCall for service6 min3d9b9629
4:43 pmCall for service6 mincbc145a2
5:31 pmCall for service6 minb2f83ebc
5:55 pmCall for service11 min932ee9bd
6:00 pmCall for service18 min45e2bb94
6:12 pmCall for service7 min77eef082
6:23 pmCall for service6 min7765df57
6:42 pmCall for service12 mind71132af
6:52 pmCall for service12 min556a2bc1
7:16 pmTraffic and crashes13 min968ac9ff
7:23 pmCall for service9 minf8c6fc61
7:40 pmCall for service5 minf8ee4c5c
8:28 pmCall for service15 min1313870a
8:51 pmCall for service8 min1db5a877
8:53 pmTraffic and crashes15 min7a080143
9:07 pmCall for service12 min44bed50a
9:37 pmCall for service12 minf4f24239
9:57 pmCall for service10 min932c2c84
10:02 pmCall for service11 min3eb415e7
10:29 pmCall for service7 min2fdd98fd
10:44 pmCall for service11 minff004a1c
11:35 pmCall for service6 min9f19c8af
11:46 pmCall for service15 min57f66697
11:54 pmCall for service11 minb1abcebe
11:59 pmCall for service17 min002a5bee

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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