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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Central Northeast, June 2026

A planning area page. 7 of the 3,951 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in June 2026.

7

drone flights crossed Central Northeast.

7

of them in June 2026.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Central Northeast 7 times between 3 June 2026 and 26 June 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 26 June 2026.

7 of the 7 drawable flights that crossed the area in June 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.

14% 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 7 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service57%
  2. Drone as first responder43%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, June 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 3 Jun 20267:04 pmDrone as first responder14 min86b853d2
Thu 4 Jun 202611:08 amDrone as first responder17 minc7bfd1ec
Tue 16 Jun 202611:02 amCall for service11 min5f0f3476
Wed 17 Jun 202610:06 pmCall for service8 min675d03f6
Thu 25 Jun 20263:42 pmCall for service17 min82cafe2c
Thu 25 Jun 20264:36 pmCall for service9 min2d19630e
Fri 26 Jun 20262:20 pmDrone as first responder20 min3e331ebe

All 7 flights in June 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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