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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Central, September 2026

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

22

drone flights crossed Central.

22

of them in September 2026.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Central 22 times between 5 September 2026 and 29 September 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 September 2026.

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

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

14% 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 22 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service77%
  2. Events23%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sat 5 Sep 20262:40 pmCall for service10 minaf0d61d2
Sat 5 Sep 20265:12 pmCall for service13 minc45cc6ba
Mon 7 Sep 202611:07 amEvents3 mind9f9df05
Mon 7 Sep 202611:36 amEvents4 minc62aa613
Mon 7 Sep 202612:02 pmEvents9 min6ccb814c
Mon 7 Sep 202612:19 pmEvents14 min5d09a3bc
Mon 7 Sep 202612:43 pmEvents5 min7c1657f2
Tue 8 Sep 202611:28 amCall for service17 minb7cf478f
Fri 11 Sep 20267:18 pmCall for service6 min63a7c674
Sat 12 Sep 20269:56 pmCall for service11 min49cff483
Sat 12 Sep 202610:13 pmCall for service19 min7454a76b
Sat 12 Sep 202610:30 pmCall for service17 min914bc7fd
Sat 12 Sep 202610:45 pmCall for service14 min5800c21b
Tue 15 Sep 20266:54 amCall for service14 min96b64a67
Wed 16 Sep 202610:43 amCall for service14 mincd0b4f50
Wed 16 Sep 20268:03 pmCall for service7 minf6ca2993
Sat 19 Sep 20265:21 pmCall for service15 mind5095d81
Sat 19 Sep 20268:00 pmCall for service14 min062d2a5e
Tue 22 Sep 20261:54 pmCall for service18 min30154d4d
Thu 24 Sep 20266:03 pmCall for service14 minf9b1b24a
Thu 24 Sep 20267:40 pmCall for service15 min1322fb12
Tue 29 Sep 20261:21 pmCall for service12 min0f73b281

All 22 flights in September 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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