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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Central Northeast, May 2026

A planning area page. 9 of the 3,951 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

9

drone flights crossed Central Northeast.

9

of them in May 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Central Northeast 9 times between 7 May 2026 and 29 May 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 May 2026.

9 of the 9 drawable flights that crossed the area in May 2026. The outlined area is the neighborhood. Paths run beyond it because each whole flight is drawn; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
Central NortheastOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

2 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.

0% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (EDT).

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 9 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service56%
  2. Drone as first responder22%
  3. Training and testing11%
  4. Not stated11%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, May 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 7 May 20264:29 pmTraining and testing7 min9a738a56
Thu 7 May 20267:02 pmCall for service10 min9d535c8c
Thu 7 May 20267:27 pmCall for service11 min14bae542
Fri 8 May 20268:44 pmNot stated13 mineab5ec31
Wed 20 May 20263:19 pmCall for service10 minacc9bf8e
Tue 26 May 20266:15 pmCall for service12 minc53f62fd
Tue 26 May 20266:23 pmDrone as first responder12 min03379e28
Thu 28 May 202610:36 amDrone as first responder13 min6ed39bc1
Fri 29 May 20269:18 pmCall for service12 min717a451f

All 9 flights in May 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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