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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Central, April 2026

A planning area page. 11 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in April 2026.

11

drone flights crossed Central.

11

of them in April 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Central 11 times between 3 April 2026 and 24 April 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 24 April 2026.

11 of the 11 drawable flights that crossed the area in April 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

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

9% 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 11 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Other73%
  2. Traffic and crashes9%
  3. Patrol support9%
  4. Drone as first responder9%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, April 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 3 Apr 202610:20 pmTraffic and crashes13 min5ec411a0
Tue 21 Apr 202611:07 amPatrol support12 minab13b1c5
Thu 23 Apr 20269:49 amOther2 minc9aa5a83
Thu 23 Apr 20269:54 amOther4 mind8afd1e3
Thu 23 Apr 20269:59 amOther13 minc7d40fb3
Thu 23 Apr 202610:14 amOther25 mind3fb14da
Thu 23 Apr 202610:45 amOther23 min87cebced
Thu 23 Apr 202611:14 amOther24 minb7691379
Thu 23 Apr 202611:42 amOther25 minadb27677
Thu 23 Apr 202612:12 pmOther8 min2c241d90
Fri 24 Apr 20268:27 pmDrone as first responder10 min3a0a0e2a

All 11 flights in April 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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