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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Central Northeast, September 2026

A planning area page. 15 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

15

drone flights crossed Central Northeast.

15

of them in September 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Central Northeast 15 times between 3 September 2026 and 30 September 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 September 2026.

15 of the 15 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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.

7% 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 service80%
  2. Search13%
  3. Patrol support7%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 3 Sep 202611:35 amCall for service11 min5144a2df
Thu 3 Sep 20265:46 pmCall for service18 min5ef7917f
Thu 3 Sep 20268:31 pmCall for service10 minbb143ff5
Fri 4 Sep 20264:14 pmPatrol support5 minba6c76ec
Tue 15 Sep 20265:54 pmCall for service4 mine005dbec
Tue 15 Sep 20266:23 pmCall for service7 minaf189d85
Tue 15 Sep 20267:16 pmCall for service11 min146ef8a1
Wed 16 Sep 20264:42 pmSearch10 min4ef46d0a
Wed 16 Sep 20266:15 pmSearch9 min93fb38f1
Fri 18 Sep 20264:43 pmCall for service6 mincbc145a2
Fri 18 Sep 202610:29 pmCall for service7 min2fdd98fd
Sat 19 Sep 20267:13 pmCall for service13 min41273fb4
Wed 23 Sep 20266:02 pmCall for service10 minc2af505f
Fri 25 Sep 20262:50 pmCall for service17 min6ba23cdc
Wed 30 Sep 20268:15 pmCall for service15 mine6361296

All 15 flights in September 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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