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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower North, October 2025

A planning area page. 90 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in October 2025.

90

drone flights crossed Lower North.

90

of them in October 2025.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower North 90 times between 1 October 2025 and 30 October 2025, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 October 2025.

90 of the 90 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 2025. 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.
Lower NorthOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

12% 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 90 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service63%
  2. Other23%
  3. Patrol support6%
  4. Not stated3%
  5. Drone as first responder2%
  6. Events1%
  7. Traffic and crashes1%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2025

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 1 Oct 202512:04 pmCall for service16 min2475b820
Wed 1 Oct 20252:49 pmEvents20 mina0f9db5d
Wed 1 Oct 20257:21 pmOther14 min79634d6f
Wed 1 Oct 20257:57 pmOther15 min1e2af94d
Thu 2 Oct 20253:35 pmNot stated17 min91612cb1
Thu 2 Oct 20253:56 pmNot stated7 mind10b0d75
Thu 2 Oct 20254:26 pmOther18 minc969b8cf
Thu 2 Oct 20254:53 pmOther10 mine33a408b
Thu 2 Oct 20255:57 pmCall for service15 min102823a2
Thu 2 Oct 20258:48 pmPatrol support9 mine377c22c
Thu 2 Oct 20259:11 pmDrone as first responder13 minab2ba617
Thu 2 Oct 202510:20 pmCall for service9 minf6bff411
Sat 4 Oct 20254:11 pmCall for service9 min966f21aa
Tue 7 Oct 20255:21 pmCall for service14 min0e64d0b2
Tue 7 Oct 20255:41 pmCall for service9 min3b8b7542
Tue 7 Oct 20256:51 pmOther11 mind631b78d
Tue 7 Oct 20257:08 pmCall for service7 mine429d5ce
Tue 7 Oct 20258:38 pmCall for service11 mind43799bd
Tue 7 Oct 202511:46 pmOther12 min00588512
Wed 8 Oct 20258:16 pmOther3 min8185e0e7
Wed 8 Oct 20258:36 pmPatrol support14 mina2b704ae
Fri 10 Oct 20255:17 pmCall for service16 min9abeac66
Fri 10 Oct 20256:33 pmCall for service5 mina3a4c922
Fri 10 Oct 20257:15 pmCall for service6 minab5eb23e
Fri 10 Oct 20258:06 pmCall for service9 min38fb57a4
Fri 10 Oct 20258:27 pmCall for service12 mina507eb4c
Fri 10 Oct 20259:11 pmCall for service13 min8ba41436
Fri 10 Oct 20259:46 pmPatrol support10 min48fb8041
Fri 10 Oct 202510:57 pmOther9 mind9eb40a8
Thu 16 Oct 20251:38 pmCall for service9 minca596f26
Fri 17 Oct 202511:35 amCall for service6 min4a2fc36f
Fri 17 Oct 202511:50 amCall for service7 mine2dbc4b6
Fri 17 Oct 20252:53 pmCall for service15 min9dd7f556
Fri 17 Oct 20253:27 pmOther9 min85e1892e
Sat 18 Oct 20252:45 pmOther54 s1cb76d81
Sat 18 Oct 20252:47 pmOther31 s348047d3
Sat 18 Oct 20252:57 pmOther11 min22a739a0
Sat 18 Oct 20258:07 pmOther13 min98007abe
Tue 21 Oct 20255:48 pmCall for service17 minf63c49c6
Tue 21 Oct 20256:08 pmCall for service17 min59728843
Tue 21 Oct 20257:05 pmCall for service12 min6572d8ec
Tue 21 Oct 20257:31 pmDrone as first responder14 min984e1dd0
Tue 21 Oct 20257:45 pmCall for service12 min9a7749b2
Tue 21 Oct 20258:21 pmCall for service12 min20a416de
Tue 21 Oct 20258:47 pmCall for service5 min35b298e1
Tue 21 Oct 20258:59 pmCall for service11 min74e17ac2
Tue 21 Oct 20259:30 pmCall for service15 min47624a62
Tue 21 Oct 202510:00 pmPatrol support8 min69b78d01
Tue 21 Oct 202510:34 pmCall for service12 min7151231c
Tue 21 Oct 202510:48 pmCall for service10 min33118eb1
Wed 22 Oct 20255:07 pmCall for service16 mine462d9b2
Wed 22 Oct 20255:34 pmCall for service11 mincc93cd84
Wed 22 Oct 20255:48 pmCall for service18 min1ae23abb
Wed 22 Oct 20256:37 pmCall for service12 minc1e27f08
Wed 22 Oct 20257:40 pmCall for service14 min7b2367ea
Wed 22 Oct 202510:08 pmOther10 min16920cc8
Fri 24 Oct 20254:09 pmCall for service13 min1fda6f4a
Fri 24 Oct 20255:42 pmCall for service11 min8ff6b544
Fri 24 Oct 20256:03 pmCall for service14 minc8b3131b
Fri 24 Oct 20257:39 pmCall for service11 minf2742d74
Fri 24 Oct 20258:25 pmOther9 min7c74facb
Fri 24 Oct 20259:13 pmCall for service13 min818819a7
Fri 24 Oct 202510:08 pmCall for service6 min267c070c
Fri 24 Oct 202510:21 pmCall for service11 min038b6485
Sat 25 Oct 20257:07 pmOther8 minaf3b0a07
Sat 25 Oct 20259:04 pmOther8 min0882c081
Tue 28 Oct 202511:30 amCall for service10 minffb99338
Tue 28 Oct 202512:01 pmOther5 min1b3cb44f
Tue 28 Oct 202512:40 pmCall for service13 min57f372e3
Tue 28 Oct 20251:24 pmCall for service8 min3996ef23
Tue 28 Oct 20251:36 pmCall for service1 min 43 s73d5414e
Tue 28 Oct 20251:40 pmCall for service8 mindeaa6012
Tue 28 Oct 20252:30 pmCall for service8 min2e59f073
Tue 28 Oct 20252:49 pmCall for service9 min0e831ee8
Tue 28 Oct 20253:19 pmOther7 min1b724f17
Tue 28 Oct 20256:06 pmNot stated7 min6955390f
Tue 28 Oct 20257:27 pmCall for service7 minefa5acc7
Tue 28 Oct 20258:44 pmCall for service8 minc67f1c13
Tue 28 Oct 20259:21 pmCall for service13 mind64d6ad1
Tue 28 Oct 202510:11 pmCall for service11 min01ce0a30
Wed 29 Oct 202511:51 amCall for service8 min4a0c0cf4
Wed 29 Oct 20257:18 pmPatrol support6 min29333e43
Wed 29 Oct 20257:51 pmOther12 min4e289048
Wed 29 Oct 20259:01 pmCall for service16 minc0bb94e7
Thu 30 Oct 20253:08 pmOther8 min5f41534c
Thu 30 Oct 20253:27 pmCall for service9 min591fc8a6
Thu 30 Oct 20256:59 pmCall for service11 minb63cc93e
Thu 30 Oct 20257:11 pmCall for service14 min9ca64b29
Thu 30 Oct 20259:05 pmTraffic and crashes7 min28e8e66b
Thu 30 Oct 202510:37 pmCall for service14 minb01f258e

All 90 flights in October 2025. 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. "Lower North" 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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