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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Central, October 2026

A planning area page. 8 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in October 2026.

8

drone flights crossed Central.

8

of them in October 2026.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Central 8 times between 1 October 2026 and 31 October 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 October 2026.

8 of the 8 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 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

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

25% 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 8 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service88%
  2. Other12%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 20266:21 pmCall for service16 min534b7d5c
Sat 3 Oct 20269:07 pmOther14 mine07a3644
Tue 13 Oct 202610:24 pmCall for service11 minba869687
Wed 14 Oct 20268:59 pmCall for service9 mina252a5b1
Sat 17 Oct 20267:03 pmCall for service14 min1bb211f3
Wed 28 Oct 20266:54 pmCall for service21 min1adfa496
Fri 30 Oct 20267:20 pmCall for service12 minb564cb41
Sat 31 Oct 202611:32 pmCall for service15 min6912e25b

All 8 flights in October 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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