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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Central, December 2025

A planning area page. 22 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in December 2025.

22

drone flights crossed Central.

22

of them in December 2025.

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Central 22 times between 2 December 2025 and 31 December 2025, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 December 2025.

22 of the 22 drawable flights that crossed the area in December 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

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

23% 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 22 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Events86%
  2. Other9%
  3. Training and testing5%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, December 2025

DateTakeoff (EST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 2 Dec 20256:32 pmOther13 mind3003fdf
Tue 2 Dec 20256:47 pmOther12 min10f5972e
Sat 20 Dec 20256:36 pmTraining and testing8 min14f6fefa
Wed 31 Dec 20256:17 pmEvents17 minfeb4e4a2
Wed 31 Dec 20256:58 pmEvents18 minc25215a2
Wed 31 Dec 20257:36 pmEvents19 min109daadd
Wed 31 Dec 20257:37 pmEvents18 mina779607d
Wed 31 Dec 20257:59 pmEvents19 min4a69deae
Wed 31 Dec 20258:10 pmEvents17 min235d0148
Wed 31 Dec 20258:20 pmEvents17 min223e7abf
Wed 31 Dec 20258:30 pmEvents20 min2cb1ed6a
Wed 31 Dec 20258:45 pmEvents18 minb84cac2e
Wed 31 Dec 20259:05 pmEvents17 minfc0c8c0d
Wed 31 Dec 20259:08 pmEvents18 min883067e3
Wed 31 Dec 20259:27 pmEvents19 min55df77c6
Wed 31 Dec 20259:30 pmEvents19 minad54fcf6
Wed 31 Dec 20259:56 pmEvents20 min57e210b8
Wed 31 Dec 202510:12 pmEvents18 minaaae1d52
Wed 31 Dec 202510:51 pmEvents18 min044e79e0
Wed 31 Dec 202511:00 pmEvents17 min7ac2910f
Wed 31 Dec 202511:37 pmEvents12 minbc969856
Wed 31 Dec 202511:50 pmEvents23 min3cc842f6

All 22 flights in December 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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