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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower North, November 2025

A planning area page. 46 of the 3,951 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in November 2025.

46

drone flights crossed Lower North.

46

of them in November 2025.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower North 46 times between 1 November 2025 and 29 November 2025, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 November 2025.

46 of the 46 drawable flights that crossed the area in November 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

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

2% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (EST).

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 46 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Events41%
  2. Call for service26%
  3. Other9%
  4. Patrol support9%
  5. Training and testing7%
  6. Traffic and crashes4%
  7. Not stated2%
  8. Drone as first responder2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, November 2025

DateTakeoff (EST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sat 1 Nov 202512:46 pmTraining and testing17 min568aeaae
Sat 1 Nov 20251:53 pmOther17 min9bb15513
Sat 1 Nov 20256:59 pmPatrol support13 mine6db7b23
Sat 1 Nov 20258:07 pmTraffic and crashes11 mina36cb021
Sat 1 Nov 20258:21 pmCall for service8 min421b2a23
Tue 4 Nov 20256:43 pmOther11 minfdaf980a
Wed 5 Nov 20254:23 pmCall for service6 min805ca8d5
Sat 8 Nov 20257:19 amEvents21 minfe8c5f85
Fri 14 Nov 202510:28 amOther13 min80beba46
Fri 14 Nov 202510:31 amTraining and testing1 min 32 s41dd30aa
Fri 14 Nov 202512:51 pmNot stated10 min63179cd1
Sat 15 Nov 20252:55 pmPatrol support12 minded00ea5
Wed 19 Nov 202511:46 amPatrol support19 mind5c48f83
Thu 20 Nov 20256:14 pmDrone as first responder15 minafc48866
Fri 21 Nov 20258:14 pmPatrol support14 minfc913a7b
Sat 22 Nov 20254:35 pmCall for service7 min39f41455
Sat 22 Nov 20254:54 pmOther17 min577fc7f8
Sat 22 Nov 20257:43 pmCall for service8 min2d1c65c2
Sat 22 Nov 20257:49 pmCall for service14 mine7108727
Sat 22 Nov 20258:05 pmCall for service5 min0fd48d2e
Sun 23 Nov 20256:43 amEvents19 min9b9584e8
Sun 23 Nov 20257:08 amEvents21 minbf451ca3
Sun 23 Nov 20257:30 amEvents22 minbc71ae08
Sun 23 Nov 20257:49 amEvents5 minb6dabeef
Sun 23 Nov 20257:57 amEvents24 min97473555
Sun 23 Nov 20258:16 amEvents19 min8a9ec16e
Sun 23 Nov 20258:37 amEvents20 min49d1115f
Sun 23 Nov 20258:55 amEvents17 minb671ec2b
Sun 23 Nov 20259:13 amEvents22 min9e756ca7
Sun 23 Nov 20259:55 amEvents20 min21791b81
Sun 23 Nov 202510:15 amEvents22 minbf43e112
Sun 23 Nov 202510:41 amEvents15 min554296b6
Sun 23 Nov 202510:57 amEvents20 min4205fcc9
Sun 23 Nov 202511:21 amEvents14 min4d956139
Sun 23 Nov 202512:11 pmEvents19 min27d202c8
Sun 23 Nov 202512:32 pmEvents15 min3eb6bfad
Sun 23 Nov 20251:17 pmEvents16 mined776ede
Sun 23 Nov 20251:49 pmEvents19 min2eb9440f
Tue 25 Nov 202511:39 amTraining and testing6 min5f503135
Wed 26 Nov 202510:32 amCall for service5 min4ab4fd7d
Wed 26 Nov 20251:22 pmCall for service11 min51b14b9d
Wed 26 Nov 20252:08 pmCall for service3 min86806a42
Wed 26 Nov 20258:37 pmCall for service13 minf2bffe3a
Sat 29 Nov 20256:17 pmCall for service7 min2fc8817c
Sat 29 Nov 20258:25 pmTraffic and crashes3 min1228eaf7
Sat 29 Nov 202510:47 pmCall for service5 minac5eb5f2

All 46 flights in November 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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