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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Central, July 2026

A planning area page. 86 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in July 2026.

86

drone flights crossed Central.

86

of them in July 2026.

20 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Central 86 times between 1 July 2026 and 23 July 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 23 July 2026.

86 of the 86 drawable flights that crossed the area in July 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

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

2% 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 86 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Events92%
  2. Patrol support6%
  3. Drone as first responder1%
  4. Training and testing1%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, July 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 1 Jul 20266:23 pmEvents15 min1690c5f0
Wed 1 Jul 20268:45 pmEvents12 min24287440
Thu 2 Jul 20267:47 amEvents22 min663fd125
Thu 2 Jul 20268:52 amEvents22 min6f354424
Thu 2 Jul 20269:38 amEvents20 min7222a8fb
Thu 2 Jul 202610:45 amEvents21 minae196a60
Thu 2 Jul 202611:22 amEvents19 min48a5bd02
Thu 2 Jul 202611:39 amEvents24 min632b8e0c
Thu 2 Jul 202612:26 pmEvents24 mindc72a3b4
Thu 2 Jul 202612:52 pmEvents24 min9a006287
Thu 2 Jul 20261:16 pmEvents17 min91097031
Thu 2 Jul 20262:13 pmEvents23 min8d1992fd
Thu 2 Jul 20263:58 pmEvents22 min48917783
Fri 3 Jul 20267:45 pmDrone as first responder11 mina420b3f1
Sat 4 Jul 20267:20 amEvents5 min4349c944
Sat 4 Jul 20267:28 amEvents19 min2f9d4e84
Sat 4 Jul 20268:14 amEvents21 min30e54a99
Sat 4 Jul 20268:39 amEvents21 min36d40676
Sat 4 Jul 20268:57 amEvents18 mind8d69de7
Sat 4 Jul 20269:31 amEvents16 minf84cd9f4
Sat 4 Jul 202610:10 amEvents19 min78a177ad
Sat 4 Jul 202610:25 amEvents21 minbbe98ccd
Sat 4 Jul 202611:05 amEvents24 min1be36ccc
Sat 4 Jul 202611:20 amEvents19 minb26bf811
Sat 4 Jul 202611:54 amEvents19 min14a1e0e9
Sat 4 Jul 202612:22 pmEvents18 min11c10a54
Sat 4 Jul 202612:43 pmEvents21 min428215fa
Sat 4 Jul 20261:26 pmEvents19 min626368fb
Sat 4 Jul 20262:10 pmEvents19 mindc4ae1c6
Sat 4 Jul 20263:21 pmEvents16 minaefb6f32
Sat 4 Jul 20263:36 pmEvents20 min9fe7015d
Sat 4 Jul 20264:04 pmEvents23 minea73cb2d
Sat 4 Jul 20264:37 pmEvents22 minf727def3
Sat 4 Jul 20265:06 pmEvents22 min19ffa183
Sat 4 Jul 20265:30 pmEvents21 min29743e03
Sat 4 Jul 20265:52 pmEvents20 min8613df49
Sat 4 Jul 20266:14 pmEvents21 min09a55350
Sat 4 Jul 20266:36 pmEvents21 mine62f9acc
Sat 4 Jul 20266:58 pmEvents23 min92c6238f
Sat 4 Jul 20267:21 pmEvents21 min116aa606
Sat 4 Jul 20267:43 pmEvents23 minba7b5b65
Sat 4 Jul 20268:09 pmEvents18 minb67dd5c3
Sat 4 Jul 20268:29 pmEvents16 min7dc4a8ca
Sun 5 Jul 20262:47 pmEvents3 min657153c7
Sun 5 Jul 20262:50 pmEvents14 min2fbb1707
Sun 5 Jul 20263:59 pmEvents22 min95e6eed1
Sun 5 Jul 20264:55 pmEvents20 min5b66038c
Sun 5 Jul 20265:58 pmEvents18 minb6fa1342
Tue 7 Jul 20265:49 pmEvents20 minbd928f31
Tue 7 Jul 20266:33 pmEvents23 min68376e1e
Wed 8 Jul 20264:00 pmEvents22 min79b9601a
Wed 8 Jul 20265:02 pmEvents20 min13ac1c9c
Wed 8 Jul 20265:24 pmEvents17 min9870be61
Wed 8 Jul 20266:53 pmEvents20 min96f4a0c4
Wed 8 Jul 20267:14 pmEvents18 min174e4266
Wed 8 Jul 20267:43 pmEvents21 min1b1048fb
Wed 8 Jul 20268:07 pmEvents22 min1b60effb
Wed 8 Jul 20268:48 pmEvents8 mincef86007
Fri 10 Jul 20264:54 pmEvents22 min5e4a4784
Fri 10 Jul 20265:22 pmEvents23 minb84c8559
Sat 11 Jul 20265:22 pmEvents23 min133ef01b
Sat 11 Jul 20265:52 pmEvents23 min939fd8ad
Sat 11 Jul 20267:05 pmEvents25 min08000185
Sat 11 Jul 202611:00 pmEvents22 min3be2c8dc
Sat 11 Jul 202611:50 pmEvents9 min5f16b1aa
Sun 12 Jul 20262:18 pmTraining and testing4 min640a6fe7
Mon 13 Jul 20265:34 pmEvents15 mince293faf
Mon 13 Jul 20266:43 pmEvents4 min1af6958f
Mon 13 Jul 20267:27 pmEvents12 mind4602f60
Mon 13 Jul 20268:20 pmEvents19 min62b02bef
Mon 13 Jul 20268:50 pmEvents7 min8aab3d58
Tue 14 Jul 20262:11 pmEvents19 min19ce77cc
Tue 14 Jul 20262:33 pmEvents22 min792bb6be
Tue 14 Jul 20262:56 pmEvents22 min9e45aef3
Tue 14 Jul 20263:00 pmEvents20 min6efc413e
Tue 14 Jul 20263:19 pmEvents20 min019c81f7
Tue 14 Jul 20264:14 pmEvents19 min56333085
Tue 14 Jul 20265:05 pmEvents19 min5fbdbae6
Wed 15 Jul 202611:15 amPatrol support14 min8fec7be5
Wed 15 Jul 20266:26 pmEvents22 min202e1d6b
Wed 15 Jul 20268:01 pmEvents17 mind3cbdddc
Wed 15 Jul 20268:46 pmEvents19 min9ec4a85c
Thu 23 Jul 20266:52 pmPatrol support16 minae84be87
Thu 23 Jul 20267:09 pmPatrol support18 min0afd5a3f
Thu 23 Jul 20267:30 pmPatrol support14 min0e2de2c2
Thu 23 Jul 20267:45 pmPatrol support16 mined4090d0

All 86 flights in July 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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