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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower NorthBoundary license unconfirmed, not for publication

A planning area page. 1,221 of the 3,895 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area.

1,221

drone flights crossed Lower North.

116

of them in October 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower North 1,221 times between 28 August 2025 and 30 October 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 October 2026.

112 of the 112 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, minus its first and last 200 m.
Lower NorthOne flight; takeoff and landing removed

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

13% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (EDT).

3 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are counted but never listed or drawn.

Month by month

Flights that crossed Lower North, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. 3
  2. 6
  3. 90
  4. 46
  5. 26
  6. 44
  7. 31
  8. 65
  9. 47
  10. 108
  11. 157
  12. 112
  13. 153
  14. 217
  15. 116
Aug 25Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The two hatched bars are the most recent months and are provisional. The current month is still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 1,221 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service53%
  2. Drone as first responder15%
  3. Other8%
  4. Events7%
  5. Patrol support7%
  6. Training and testing5%
  7. Not stated4%
  8. Traffic and crashes1%

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 202611:02 amCall for service7 min8f195ebe
Thu 1 Oct 202611:29 amCall for service13 min4480b928
Thu 1 Oct 202612:17 pmCall for service15 min1fd2c7c6
Thu 1 Oct 20262:32 pmCall for service17 minff573714
Thu 1 Oct 20265:23 pmCall for service13 min8fd41f8b
Thu 1 Oct 20265:59 pmCall for service19 minee113b6d
Thu 1 Oct 20266:21 pmCall for service16 min534b7d5c
Thu 1 Oct 20269:52 pmCall for service16 mind5daba0e
Thu 1 Oct 202610:53 pmCall for service12 min1711d195
Thu 1 Oct 202611:11 pmCall for service7 minfea7383a
Fri 2 Oct 202610:48 amCall for service7 min94a38cfe
Fri 2 Oct 202612:06 pmCall for service10 mina8610bdf
Fri 2 Oct 20264:03 pmCall for service10 mina9dc2c68
Fri 2 Oct 20264:26 pmCall for service6 min08374ac1
Fri 2 Oct 20266:08 pmCall for service18 min27012e13
Fri 2 Oct 20269:01 pmCall for service15 minb0d12f41
Fri 2 Oct 20269:14 pmCall for service11 mineccaf406
Fri 2 Oct 202610:44 pmCall for service13 minaf771d4b
Fri 2 Oct 202611:07 pmPatrol support13 minafcfa19b
Sat 3 Oct 202611:27 amCall for service9 min1be70ef7
Sat 3 Oct 202612:10 pmCall for service7 min6a89148a
Sat 3 Oct 20265:17 pmCall for service15 minaa3bd21b
Sat 3 Oct 20265:45 pmCall for service17 min1aebddb6
Sat 3 Oct 20267:13 pmCall for service9 min02618de1
Sat 3 Oct 20267:52 pmCall for service11 min3cdf1f81
Sat 3 Oct 20268:40 pmCall for service19 minf0a6f4cf
Sat 3 Oct 20269:07 pmOther14 mine07a3644
Sat 3 Oct 20269:27 pmCall for service11 mineeaa2632
Sat 3 Oct 202610:02 pmCall for service15 min3cb803f3
Sat 3 Oct 202610:07 pmCall for service12 minafcf72fa
Sat 3 Oct 202610:53 pmCall for service7 minfb4049dd
Sat 3 Oct 202611:19 pmPatrol support12 mince4cea57
Sat 3 Oct 202611:47 pmCall for service10 mine22ee421
Tue 6 Oct 202611:56 amCall for service11 minc1f54dae
Tue 6 Oct 202612:19 pmCall for service18 min4ae3b277
Tue 6 Oct 202612:41 pmCall for service13 min7f953fbd
Tue 6 Oct 20262:56 pmCall for service16 min546168e0
Tue 6 Oct 20262:59 pmCall for service7 mine90c1e42
Fri 9 Oct 202610:17 amCall for service15 min7c250a42
Fri 9 Oct 20261:57 pmCall for service14 min2515abe0
Sat 10 Oct 20263:19 pmCall for service7 min7dfca3cc
Tue 13 Oct 20266:36 pmCall for service10 minf3114f3e
Tue 13 Oct 20267:14 pmCall for service17 minc8a5cfc5
Tue 13 Oct 20268:01 pmCall for service13 minb5c56511
Tue 13 Oct 20268:57 pmCall for service15 mina063e28d
Tue 13 Oct 202610:24 pmCall for service11 minba869687
Tue 13 Oct 202610:45 pmCall for service17 min0214126c
Wed 14 Oct 20265:55 pmCall for service19 mine32dec55
Wed 14 Oct 20268:34 pmCall for service18 minbe98e389
Wed 14 Oct 20268:59 pmCall for service9 mina252a5b1
Wed 14 Oct 20269:38 pmCall for service14 mineef5a598
Wed 14 Oct 20269:53 pmCall for service14 min3dbba68c
Thu 15 Oct 20265:31 pmCall for service14 min9196bd9a
Thu 15 Oct 20265:49 pmPatrol support20 minf601847d
Thu 15 Oct 20266:29 pmCall for service12 min228aa621
Thu 15 Oct 20268:11 pmCall for service15 mindf80c226
Thu 15 Oct 20268:16 pmOther12 mine28d28f0
Thu 15 Oct 20269:04 pmCall for service14 minc911ab8a
Thu 15 Oct 202610:48 pmCall for service11 min7487de7c
Fri 16 Oct 20265:54 pmCall for service11 min2222a3d4
Fri 16 Oct 20266:20 pmCall for service8 min50a77e0e
Fri 16 Oct 20267:35 pmCall for service7 minc2c5a134
Fri 16 Oct 20267:57 pmTraining and testing1 min 16 se8c807b4
Fri 16 Oct 202610:38 pmCall for service13 min04bb75bd
Fri 16 Oct 202611:12 pmCall for service15 mina4af9454
Fri 16 Oct 202611:56 pmCall for service17 minc00dd9de
Sat 17 Oct 20265:14 pmCall for service14 min8e9b0459
Sat 17 Oct 20266:31 pmCall for service11 min09886636
Sat 17 Oct 20267:03 pmCall for service14 min1bb211f3
Sat 17 Oct 20267:46 pmCall for service14 minc9ac5e6b
Sat 17 Oct 20267:53 pmCall for service16 minbd56dad4
Sat 17 Oct 20269:04 pmCall for service11 min51f07426
Sat 17 Oct 202611:31 pmCall for service16 min28976ee1
Wed 21 Oct 202611:50 amTraining and testing2 min1101cbc2
Wed 21 Oct 202612:01 pmCall for service16 min297fe84a
Wed 21 Oct 20261:02 pmOther9 minddb0761e
Wed 21 Oct 20261:46 pmCall for service13 min441e0954
Wed 21 Oct 20262:19 pmPatrol support12 min9c1fff6a
Wed 21 Oct 20263:45 pmCall for service17 minee813810
Wed 21 Oct 20264:04 pmCall for service20 minbd3b91ac
Wed 21 Oct 20264:44 pmCall for service13 minadfc0b72
Thu 22 Oct 202610:29 amCall for service19 min96b104c4
Thu 22 Oct 202611:32 amCall for service17 mine1948811
Thu 22 Oct 202612:02 pmCall for service20 min1a2f0c8a
Thu 22 Oct 20261:17 pmOther18 min8afa6aa1
Thu 22 Oct 20262:53 pmCall for service16 min171ec07b
Thu 22 Oct 20263:19 pmCall for service10 min31ae8ba1
Thu 22 Oct 20264:24 pmCall for service7 minb8e2c68f
Fri 23 Oct 202610:43 amCall for service8 mina8463870
Fri 23 Oct 202610:52 amCall for service6 min76047f42
Fri 23 Oct 202612:00 pmCall for service5 mind3bc1173
Fri 23 Oct 202612:23 pmCall for service6 mineffbedc1
Fri 23 Oct 20261:30 pmCall for service10 minc13faaa6
Fri 23 Oct 20261:49 pmCall for service7 minfe6a12eb
Fri 23 Oct 20263:05 pmCall for service4 minde810508
Fri 23 Oct 20264:33 pmCall for service11 mine234af55
Tue 27 Oct 202611:23 pmCall for service19 min18b14cdb
Wed 28 Oct 20265:22 pmCall for service9 min2b6dca56
Wed 28 Oct 20265:50 pmCall for service9 minfa9ad671
Wed 28 Oct 20266:25 pmCall for service23 minf9cbec23
Wed 28 Oct 20266:54 pmCall for service21 min1adfa496
Wed 28 Oct 20268:13 pmCall for service8 min985c672c
Wed 28 Oct 20268:58 pmCall for service13 min1648e24f
Wed 28 Oct 202611:05 pmCall for service16 min5e79a186
Thu 29 Oct 20268:11 pmCall for service6 mindc5ba64f
Thu 29 Oct 20268:18 pmCall for service10 mine0d67fa0
Thu 29 Oct 20268:47 pmTraffic and crashes13 minccb00041
Fri 30 Oct 20266:09 pmCall for service15 minc1aca0db
Fri 30 Oct 20266:58 pmCall for service17 min8205047b
Fri 30 Oct 20267:11 pmCall for service6 mina60ae133
Fri 30 Oct 20267:16 pmCall for service11 minf643c100
Fri 30 Oct 20267:20 pmCall for service12 minb564cb41
Fri 30 Oct 20267:39 pmPatrol support9 minc75c3b56
Fri 30 Oct 20268:37 pmCall for service17 mindc81a600

All 114 listable flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are counted in the totals but not listed. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
  • Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
  • Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • Boundary. "Lower North" is a planning area polygon from City of Philadelphia (Planning Districts), licence recorded as "City of Philadelphia GIS disclaimer (provided as is; no license stated)", in the place layer file for Philadelphia. Boundary license unconfirmed, not for publication: ADR 0003 bars paging a place whose licence is unknown or share-alike; this page exists only in the local demo.
  • A flight counts for this area when its simplified path intersects the polygon (shapely). The join uses the unclipped line; only the clipped line is drawn.

Corrections and questions: file an issue in the korvid-labs repository (demo).