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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Central, January 2026

A planning area page. 22 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in January 2026.

22

drone flights crossed Central.

22

of them in January 2026.

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Central 22 times between 8 January 2026 and 28 January 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 January 2026.

22 of the 22 drawable flights that crossed the area in January 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.
CentralOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

6 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 22 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Events64%
  2. Call for service23%
  3. Patrol support5%
  4. Training and testing5%
  5. Other5%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, January 2026

DateTakeoff (EST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 8 Jan 202612:15 pmPatrol support14 min585d4f50
Sat 10 Jan 202610:19 amEvents22 mind393ab0f
Sat 10 Jan 202610:49 amEvents21 min8838e47f
Sat 10 Jan 202611:44 amEvents18 min50412205
Fri 16 Jan 20262:52 pmCall for service18 minc4fa719d
Fri 16 Jan 20263:27 pmCall for service19 min69eb76d8
Fri 16 Jan 20264:11 pmCall for service18 minb1e43c2a
Sat 17 Jan 202610:42 amEvents19 min00ef5d6b
Sat 17 Jan 202611:05 amEvents11 min0fb88cdb
Sat 17 Jan 202611:40 amEvents22 min77a17a56
Sat 17 Jan 20262:09 pmEvents21 min26dfb1a1
Tue 20 Jan 20262:56 pmTraining and testing13 min37d1d4ca
Tue 20 Jan 20266:29 pmCall for service16 min245dbfb4
Wed 21 Jan 20261:22 pmOther11 min1bb9e4c7
Fri 23 Jan 20261:09 pmEvents6 mine1588165
Fri 23 Jan 20264:43 pmEvents23 min307876cf
Fri 23 Jan 20265:03 pmEvents20 mind3f23b66
Fri 23 Jan 20265:32 pmEvents18 min80402c5f
Fri 23 Jan 20265:45 pmEvents12 min7e80d1ab
Fri 23 Jan 20266:11 pmEvents16 minfb426159
Fri 23 Jan 20266:44 pmEvents17 mina67de0f0
Wed 28 Jan 20261:53 pmCall for service5 min696d1028

All 22 flights in January 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" 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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