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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Central, August 2026

A planning area page. 55 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

55

drone flights crossed Central.

55

of them in August 2026.

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Central 55 times between 11 August 2026 and 30 August 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 August 2026.

55 of the 55 drawable flights that crossed the area in August 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

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

5% 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 55 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Events80%
  2. Call for service13%
  3. Other7%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 11 Aug 202612:46 pmCall for service7 min5203912d
Wed 12 Aug 202612:02 pmOther17 mina4da215e
Wed 12 Aug 20269:47 pmCall for service14 min3a0e49a7
Wed 12 Aug 202610:00 pmOther13 min30aa988c
Wed 12 Aug 202610:13 pmCall for service12 min91d358af
Wed 12 Aug 202610:42 pmCall for service11 minea6f40da
Tue 18 Aug 20269:30 pmCall for service3 min0f3930d2
Fri 21 Aug 20268:07 pmCall for service11 min968f8c96
Wed 26 Aug 20261:32 pmEvents20 min793ef6c4
Wed 26 Aug 20261:43 pmCall for service14 minb3440d39
Wed 26 Aug 20263:14 pmEvents20 mind7e75893
Wed 26 Aug 20268:29 pmOther6 min0f3ef7a2
Fri 28 Aug 20261:10 pmOther16 min3ed0b3f0
Sun 30 Aug 20266:21 amEvents19 min79800975
Sun 30 Aug 20266:47 amEvents21 min8fc50862
Sun 30 Aug 20267:01 amEvents17 min3f191a27
Sun 30 Aug 20267:09 amEvents22 min85774874
Sun 30 Aug 20267:29 amEvents20 mincc404cad
Sun 30 Aug 20267:50 amEvents17 min3f44ce59
Sun 30 Aug 20267:57 amEvents17 min75cb3f2d
Sun 30 Aug 20268:09 amEvents20 min0e9d9207
Sun 30 Aug 20268:32 amEvents18 min9f2d2688
Sun 30 Aug 20268:48 amEvents19 min3255cd7f
Sun 30 Aug 20268:53 amEvents21 min80d0694b
Sun 30 Aug 20269:16 amEvents18 min4fce8f1d
Sun 30 Aug 20269:23 amEvents19 min8d6d35c5
Sun 30 Aug 20269:39 amEvents19 min6a8541a5
Sun 30 Aug 20269:43 amEvents17 min4ea7b1ce
Sun 30 Aug 202610:02 amEvents21 minf95000ca
Sun 30 Aug 202610:02 amEvents16 minf2c8346c
Sun 30 Aug 202610:29 amEvents18 minfe4be389
Sun 30 Aug 202610:43 amEvents21 min42095a65
Sun 30 Aug 202610:48 amEvents39 s72f0445a
Sun 30 Aug 202610:57 amEvents23 min0d5c9a07
Sun 30 Aug 202611:10 amEvents18 min9657b3e3
Sun 30 Aug 202611:29 amEvents20 min14a8fb84
Sun 30 Aug 202611:55 amEvents19 min47086dea
Sun 30 Aug 202612:03 pmEvents18 min87cf1ee6
Sun 30 Aug 202612:17 pmEvents18 min444333f9
Sun 30 Aug 202612:26 pmEvents20 min5fe8d139
Sun 30 Aug 202612:39 pmEvents18 min75b1c218
Sun 30 Aug 202612:59 pmEvents21 min9ab0f7e2
Sun 30 Aug 20261:22 pmEvents19 min8f8595a5
Sun 30 Aug 20261:31 pmEvents23 min59c8186b
Sun 30 Aug 20261:55 pmEvents18 mincf676662
Sun 30 Aug 20262:16 pmEvents18 min45d8c934
Sun 30 Aug 20262:39 pmEvents22 min97a6ab5d
Sun 30 Aug 20262:51 pmEvents14 min6c098dff
Sun 30 Aug 20263:07 pmEvents16 mincc9ee282
Sun 30 Aug 20263:08 pmEvents16 min1bf6338e
Sun 30 Aug 20263:31 pmEvents20 min01b221da
Sun 30 Aug 20263:34 pmEvents19 mina6210238
Sun 30 Aug 20263:54 pmEvents17 min6c689bad
Sun 30 Aug 20263:58 pmEvents21 min68af2eea
Sun 30 Aug 20265:12 pmEvents6 minf5094f5c

All 55 flights in August 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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