DroneRecord
  1. Drone Record
  2. Pennsylvania
  3. Philadelphia
  4. Central

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

CentralBoundary license unconfirmed, not for publication

A planning area page. 442 of the 3,895 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area.

442

drone flights crossed Central.

7

of them in October 2026.

19 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Central 442 times between 29 July 2024 and 30 October 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 October 2026.

7 of the 7 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 2026. The outlined area is the neighborhood. Paths run beyond it because each whole flight is drawn, minus its first and last 200 m.
CentralOne flight; takeoff and landing removed

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

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

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are counted but never listed or drawn.

Month by month

Flights that crossed Central, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. 1
  2. 0
  3. 0
  4. 0
  5. 0
  6. 0
  7. 0
  8. 0
  9. 1
  10. 4
  11. 0
  12. 34
  13. 3
  14. 0
  15. 1
  16. 10
  17. 38
  18. 22
  19. 22
  20. 5
  21. 2
  22. 11
  23. 5
  24. 113
  25. 86
  26. 55
  27. 22
  28. 7
Jul 24Aug 24Sep 24Oct 24Nov 24Dec 24Jan 25Feb 25Mar 25Apr 25May 25Jun 25Jul 25Aug 25Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The two hatched bars are the most recent months and are provisional. The current month is still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 442 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Events76%
  2. Call for service9%
  3. Other6%
  4. Drone as first responder4%
  5. Not stated2%
  6. Patrol support2%
  7. Training and testing1%
  8. Traffic and crashes0%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 20266:21 pmCall for service16 min534b7d5c
Sat 3 Oct 20269:07 pmOther14 mine07a3644
Tue 13 Oct 202610:24 pmCall for service11 minba869687
Wed 14 Oct 20268:59 pmCall for service9 mina252a5b1
Sat 17 Oct 20267:03 pmCall for service14 min1bb211f3
Wed 28 Oct 20266:54 pmCall for service21 min1adfa496
Fri 30 Oct 20267:20 pmCall for service12 minb564cb41

All 7 listable flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are counted in the totals but not listed. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
  • Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
  • Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • Boundary. "Central" is a planning area polygon from City of Philadelphia (Planning Districts), licence recorded as "City of Philadelphia GIS disclaimer (provided as is; no license stated)", in the place layer file for Philadelphia. Boundary license unconfirmed, not for publication: ADR 0003 bars paging a place whose licence is unknown or share-alike; this page exists only in the local demo.
  • A flight counts for this area when its simplified path intersects the polygon (shapely). The join uses the unclipped line; only the clipped line is drawn.

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