5
drone flights crossed Central Northeast.
5
of them in January 2026.
11 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Police drones crossed Central Northeast 5 times between 2 January 2026 and 20 January 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 20 January 2026.
1 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.
0% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (EST).
0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.
Why, in the agency's words
The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 5 flights that crossed this area.
Hour of day
Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.
Flight list, January 2026
| Date | Takeoff (EST) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 2 Jan 2026 | 2:40 pm | Other | 11 min | 58b35cb8 |
| Fri 2 Jan 2026 | 4:02 pm | Call for service | 14 min | d1eb0c31 |
| Tue 13 Jan 2026 | 11:01 am | Not stated | 13 min | 14c9eb02 |
| Tue 20 Jan 2026 | 6:31 pm | Call for service | 10 min | 6d967ea8 |
| Tue 20 Jan 2026 | 9:50 pm | Call for service | 9 min | 671e321f |
All 5 flights in January 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.
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.
- Boundary. "Central Northeast" is a planning area polygon from City of Philadelphia (Planning Districts), licence "City of Philadelphia GIS disclaimer (provided as is; no license stated)". Boundary licence unconfirmed: the boundary is shown for orientation only.
- A flight counts for this area when its path crosses the boundary; only the part inside is drawn.
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