13
drone flights over Philadelphia that day.
11:50 am
first takeoff; the last was at 4:44 pm.
11 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Philadelphia police drones flew 13 times on Wednesday 21 October 2026, the first at 11:50 am and the last at 4:44 pm EDT, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.
One flight; takeoff and landing removed
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, EDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
13 listable flights. Flights in the latest full month link to their own page.
| Takeoff (EDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:50 am | Training and testing | 2 min | 1101cbc2 |
| 12:01 pm | Call for service | 16 min | 297fe84a |
| 12:14 pm | Call for service | 9 min | 13fb5cc8 |
| 1:02 pm | Other | 9 min | ddb0761e |
| 1:36 pm | Call for service | 8 min | 628e5b57 |
| 1:46 pm | Call for service | 13 min | 441e0954 |
| 1:53 pm | Call for service | 9 min | fea182a1 |
| 2:19 pm | Patrol support | 12 min | 9c1fff6a |
| 3:01 pm | Call for service | 8 min | 26de3fe1 |
| 3:09 pm | Call for service | 11 min | ff8c015a |
| 3:45 pm | Call for service | 17 min | ee813810 |
| 4:04 pm | Call for service | 20 min | bd3b91ac |
| 4:44 pm | Call for service | 13 min | adfc0b72 |
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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