drone flights over Philadelphia that day.

11:41 am

first takeoff; the last was at 2:21 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Philadelphia police drones flew 6 times on Wednesday 7 October 2026, the first at 11:41 am and the last at 2:21 pm EDT, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.

6 drawable flights of 6. Each path is simplified, and its first and last 200 m are removed.

One flight; takeoff and landing removed

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, EDT.

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Why, in the agency's words

Call for service100%

Flights, in order

6 listable flights. Flights in the latest full month link to their own page.

Takeoff (EDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
11:41 am	Call for service	9 min	9cd0d463
11:55 am	Call for service	10 min	e0f6c047
12:14 pm	Call for service	15 min	c754bc0b
1:03 pm	Call for service	13 min	8546fdfe
2:05 pm	Call for service	8 min	7046155e
2:21 pm	Call for service	15 min	9e48a83d

How this page is made

Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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