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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Central, November 2025

A planning area page. 38 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in November 2025.

38

drone flights crossed Central.

38

of them in November 2025.

21 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Central 38 times between 8 November 2025 and 27 November 2025, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 27 November 2025.

38 of the 38 drawable flights that crossed the area in November 2025. 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.
CentralOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

0% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (EST).

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 38 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Events95%
  2. Drone as first responder3%
  3. Not stated3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, November 2025

DateTakeoff (EST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sat 8 Nov 20257:19 amEvents21 minfe8c5f85
Sat 8 Nov 20258:06 amEvents20 min61dea9e4
Sat 8 Nov 20259:04 amEvents19 mincf284d25
Sat 8 Nov 202510:20 amEvents19 min1b0c1dcc
Thu 20 Nov 20256:14 pmDrone as first responder15 minafc48866
Sat 22 Nov 20259:47 amNot stated20 minb5a9ddb5
Sat 22 Nov 20259:59 amEvents21 minddbc63c5
Sat 22 Nov 202510:17 amEvents21 min47257577
Sat 22 Nov 202510:39 amEvents21 min7603613f
Sat 22 Nov 202511:22 amEvents22 min24f16251
Sun 23 Nov 20256:43 amEvents19 min9b9584e8
Sun 23 Nov 20258:17 amEvents26 mine1e2ff6d
Sun 23 Nov 202511:06 amEvents24 mina1910c95
Thu 27 Nov 20258:05 amEvents21 min3bd21192
Thu 27 Nov 20258:09 amEvents19 min23ac1a2f
Thu 27 Nov 20258:15 amEvents22 min264ee0ad
Thu 27 Nov 20258:27 amEvents22 min3f1c4ada
Thu 27 Nov 20258:28 amEvents21 mina6ecc344
Thu 27 Nov 20258:50 amEvents19 min8256894d
Thu 27 Nov 20258:52 amEvents20 min20850668
Thu 27 Nov 20259:06 amEvents23 min54eeeb77
Thu 27 Nov 20259:09 amEvents23 min471206ef
Thu 27 Nov 20259:12 amEvents23 mina87c5b20
Thu 27 Nov 20259:32 amEvents19 min525de184
Thu 27 Nov 20259:35 amEvents21 minf8ee4731
Thu 27 Nov 20259:42 amEvents16 min7b2073ca
Thu 27 Nov 20259:57 amEvents22 minb15af67d
Thu 27 Nov 202510:13 amEvents18 minb9e90e43
Thu 27 Nov 202510:22 amEvents19 min3c9f8580
Thu 27 Nov 202510:32 amEvents14 min35f90eda
Thu 27 Nov 202510:40 amEvents23 min69464002
Thu 27 Nov 202511:01 amEvents19 min3aab2bc4
Thu 27 Nov 202511:03 amEvents20 mindd664511
Thu 27 Nov 202511:21 amEvents21 min570880d8
Thu 27 Nov 202511:24 amEvents26 min546d68b3
Thu 27 Nov 202511:53 amEvents17 min00e38989
Thu 27 Nov 202512:00 pmEvents24 mine89a8484
Thu 27 Nov 202512:25 pmEvents4 minde7c72a5

All 38 flights in November 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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