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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · one day

Thursday 1 October 2026

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

36

drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

10:27 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:47 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 36 times on Thursday 1 October 2026, the first at 10:27 am and the last at 11:47 pm EDT, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.

36 drawable flights of 36. 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 service94%
  2. Search3%
  3. Patrol support3%

Flights, in order

36 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
10:27 amCall for service7 min7319e246
10:37 amCall for service12 mincb50025c
10:49 amCall for service6 minc3c75e53
11:02 amCall for service7 min8f195ebe
11:17 amCall for service13 min2f853246
11:29 amCall for service13 min4480b928
11:58 amCall for service2 min40bdd076
12:17 pmCall for service15 min1fd2c7c6
12:43 pmCall for service8 minda552690
12:49 pmCall for service13 min7e4f16cb
1:02 pmCall for service12 min0316fa81
2:20 pmCall for service15 min80bab946
2:32 pmCall for service17 minff573714
2:39 pmCall for service9 min921f4d10
2:41 pmCall for service11 min81ff69e7
2:53 pmSearch17 min449314d2
3:09 pmCall for service12 mineebdcecf
3:24 pmCall for service13 min3591cb5e
3:35 pmPatrol support15 minb1c2a183
3:57 pmCall for service9 min3dcd77a5
5:23 pmCall for service13 min8fd41f8b
5:59 pmCall for service19 minee113b6d
6:12 pmCall for service14 min262f0e0e
6:21 pmCall for service16 min534b7d5c
6:28 pmCall for service14 min01c08b9f
8:04 pmCall for service15 minec79c8d5
8:17 pmCall for service15 minb643b653
9:44 pmCall for service15 min741099c2
9:52 pmCall for service16 mind5daba0e
10:30 pmCall for service14 min54170e23
10:49 pmCall for service21 mindec0dd20
10:53 pmCall for service12 min1711d195
11:11 pmCall for service7 minfea7383a
11:21 pmCall for service10 min9bfe84a8
11:32 pmCall for service11 min4db14c90
11:47 pmCall for service6 min1ef3fd16

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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