26
drone flights crossed Lower North.
26
of them in December 2025.
11 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Police drones crossed Lower North 26 times between 2 December 2025 and 31 December 2025, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 December 2025.
4 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.
4% 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 26 flights that crossed this area.
Hour of day
Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.
Flight list, December 2025
| Date | Takeoff (EST) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 2 Dec 2025 | 6:32 pm | Other | 13 min | d3003fdf |
| Wed 3 Dec 2025 | 11:08 am | Other | 12 min | 2a8057f8 |
| Wed 3 Dec 2025 | 8:23 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 403617d6 |
| Thu 4 Dec 2025 | 1:44 pm | Training and testing | 2 min | 37d0d038 |
| Fri 5 Dec 2025 | 7:00 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 19 s | a5126f56 |
| Tue 9 Dec 2025 | 11:47 am | Other | 14 min | cafe36f4 |
| Fri 12 Dec 2025 | 10:26 am | Not stated | 12 min | 0be4ce77 |
| Fri 12 Dec 2025 | 10:42 am | Not stated | 10 min | 2430b53c |
| Fri 12 Dec 2025 | 11:17 am | Training and testing | 1 min 02 s | a16a1eab |
| Tue 16 Dec 2025 | 11:48 am | Call for service | 11 min | 73b514db |
| Tue 16 Dec 2025 | 1:47 pm | Traffic and crashes | 17 min | 1b7dc5f9 |
| Tue 16 Dec 2025 | 2:14 pm | Call for service | 9 min | c532c3bf |
| Tue 16 Dec 2025 | 10:11 pm | Drone as first responder | 6 min | 5f55f691 |
| Wed 17 Dec 2025 | 10:16 am | Traffic and crashes | 7 min | 387d175b |
| Fri 19 Dec 2025 | 11:32 am | Training and testing | 3 min | 16ada811 |
| Fri 19 Dec 2025 | 1:59 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 10705a3d |
| Sat 20 Dec 2025 | 11:31 am | Call for service | 10 min | 03de2d23 |
| Sat 20 Dec 2025 | 12:16 pm | Call for service | 7 min | 6988abf2 |
| Sat 20 Dec 2025 | 12:42 pm | Call for service | 18 min | a4530b15 |
| Sat 20 Dec 2025 | 4:03 pm | Call for service | 8 min | d006ba56 |
| Sat 20 Dec 2025 | 6:36 pm | Training and testing | 8 min | 14f6fefa |
| Tue 23 Dec 2025 | 8:28 pm | Traffic and crashes | 9 min | b6b0efb2 |
| Wed 31 Dec 2025 | 7:08 pm | Not stated | 20 min | 7f358279 |
| Wed 31 Dec 2025 | 7:37 pm | Call for service | 18 min | f10dcd31 |
| Wed 31 Dec 2025 | 7:56 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 87920a8f |
| Wed 31 Dec 2025 | 8:15 pm | Call for service | 13 min | 67d5e942 |
All 26 flights in December 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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