9
drone flights over Philadelphia that day.
10:43 am
first takeoff; the last was at 4:33 pm.
7 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Philadelphia police drones flew 9 times on Friday 23 October 2026, the first at 10:43 am and the last at 4:33 pm EDT, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, EDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
9 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) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:43 am | Call for service | 8 min | a8463870 |
| 10:52 am | Call for service | 6 min | 76047f42 |
| 11:49 am | Call for service | 15 min | 2c6ad590 |
| 12:00 pm | Call for service | 5 min | d3bc1173 |
| 12:23 pm | Call for service | 6 min | effbedc1 |
| 1:30 pm | Call for service | 10 min | c13faaa6 |
| 1:49 pm | Call for service | 7 min | fe6a12eb |
| 3:05 pm | Call for service | 4 min | de810508 |
| 4:33 pm | Call for service | 11 min | e234af55 |
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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