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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Central Northeast, August 2026

A planning area page. 15 of the 3,951 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

15

drone flights crossed Central Northeast.

15

of them in August 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Central Northeast 15 times between 12 August 2026 and 29 August 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 August 2026.

15 of the 15 drawable flights that crossed the area in August 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

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

20% 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 15 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service60%
  2. Other20%
  3. Drone as first responder20%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 12 Aug 202610:23 amOther15 mine7b6c2ae
Wed 19 Aug 20266:13 pmCall for service13 minabb964a2
Thu 20 Aug 20262:43 pmOther8 min0748ecaa
Fri 21 Aug 20267:15 pmCall for service4 minc00df99e
Fri 21 Aug 202610:01 pmCall for service16 min3a08f2fa
Fri 21 Aug 202610:25 pmCall for service4 minbc1c8348
Sat 22 Aug 20267:56 pmCall for service6 mind72d9b77
Sat 22 Aug 202610:10 pmOther7 min65a03ca8
Wed 26 Aug 20268:00 pmCall for service16 min332a0dae
Wed 26 Aug 20268:50 pmCall for service5 min2c81526b
Fri 28 Aug 20263:35 pmCall for service10 min6539cc87
Fri 28 Aug 20266:54 pmCall for service12 min265a06b9
Sat 29 Aug 202611:05 amDrone as first responder15 min0f52fe4e
Sat 29 Aug 202612:59 pmDrone as first responder17 min412c23e6
Sat 29 Aug 20261:14 pmDrone as first responder7 minbdf7add4

All 15 flights in August 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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