10
drone flights crossed Central.
10
of them in October 2025.
15 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Police drones crossed Central 10 times between 2 October 2025 and 24 October 2025, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 24 October 2025.
3 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.
10% 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 10 flights that crossed this area.
Hour of day
Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.
Flight list, October 2025
| Date | Takeoff (EDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 2 Oct 2025 | 5:39 pm | Events | 4 min | c552e587 |
| Thu 2 Oct 2025 | 7:01 pm | Events | 22 min | 495c8be2 |
| Thu 2 Oct 2025 | 7:36 pm | Events | 18 min | 314366f2 |
| Tue 7 Oct 2025 | 4:56 pm | Events | 22 min | 93d2b97c |
| Tue 7 Oct 2025 | 5:34 pm | Events | 11 min | c1bd06eb |
| Tue 7 Oct 2025 | 6:18 pm | Events | 22 min | 9b7f1a00 |
| Tue 7 Oct 2025 | 6:55 pm | Events | 18 min | 3edad553 |
| Wed 22 Oct 2025 | 10:08 pm | Other | 10 min | 16920cc8 |
| Fri 24 Oct 2025 | 5:42 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 8ff6b544 |
| Fri 24 Oct 2025 | 9:13 pm | Call for service | 13 min | 818819a7 |
All 10 flights in October 2025. 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" 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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