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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · one day

Saturday 19 September 2026

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

37

drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

10:48 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:29 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 37 times on Saturday 19 September 2026, the first at 10:48 am and the last at 11:29 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 service54%
  2. Events27%
  3. Other11%
  4. Patrol support5%
  5. Traffic and crashes3%

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
10:48 amCall for service6 min7d045c6b
11:25 amCall for service17 minc00e132c
11:25 amCall for service16 minb7d2c47d
11:46 amCall for service11 min0ab957e4
12:13 pmPatrol support8 mine9d2fdfd
12:22 pmEvents21 min60fc2969
1:01 pmCall for service17 min0025b331
1:16 pmEvents19 minf40ba445
1:22 pmCall for service19 min6ff2ff5a
1:45 pmEvents24 min712c178d
2:08 pmCall for service14 min190dad22
2:12 pmEvents21 min9759e41e
2:37 pmCall for service19 minaa4cb13d
2:38 pmEvents6 min9b839781
2:53 pmEvents16 minfa7cf2c4
3:16 pmEvents39 sfbe8c070
3:45 pmEvents13 minf2693671
4:07 pmCall for service6 mina81d720b
4:53 pmEvents18 min30b0b24a
5:16 pmOther16 min66435eba
5:21 pmCall for service15 mind5095d81
5:23 pmEvents20 min62bd56cb
6:06 pmCall for service12 mine19e0773
6:08 pmCall for service12 mind2352529
6:43 pmPatrol support9 minebd81438
7:13 pmCall for service13 min41273fb4
7:52 pmCall for service6 min0c5ee9b0
8:00 pmCall for service14 min062d2a5e
8:37 pmOther16 min4e5d2506
8:48 pmOther6 min64b39ea8
9:12 pmCall for service11 min50fbc201
9:32 pmTraffic and crashes6 mineb5b0107
9:45 pmCall for service16 min63cb27b6
9:45 pmCall for service10 min9a7351bf
10:19 pmCall for service18 mincd20697e
10:53 pmCall for service11 min3b36ab00
11:29 pmOther14 min872ff22b

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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