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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower North, January 2026

A planning area page. 44 of the 3,951 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in January 2026.

44

drone flights crossed Lower North.

44

of them in January 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower North 44 times between 2 January 2026 and 30 January 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 January 2026.

44 of the 44 drawable flights that crossed the area in January 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.
Lower NorthOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

5% 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 44 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service52%
  2. Patrol support20%
  3. Training and testing16%
  4. Other9%
  5. Drone as first responder2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, January 2026

DateTakeoff (EST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 2 Jan 202611:16 amCall for service15 min671da277
Wed 7 Jan 20266:10 pmCall for service7 min0ecfced7
Wed 7 Jan 20267:48 pmCall for service5 min4ab85bad
Wed 7 Jan 20268:10 pmCall for service13 min1a0344be
Thu 8 Jan 202612:15 pmPatrol support14 min585d4f50
Thu 8 Jan 20265:49 pmCall for service15 minf7d8f12e
Thu 8 Jan 20267:08 pmPatrol support6 min3f057031
Thu 8 Jan 20268:21 pmDrone as first responder10 min8a1f26f9
Fri 9 Jan 20265:26 pmTraining and testing46 s43c85293
Fri 9 Jan 20266:20 pmCall for service9 min29f22942
Fri 9 Jan 20267:08 pmCall for service10 minb399af7b
Fri 9 Jan 20267:41 pmCall for service10 minafd2956e
Tue 13 Jan 202611:22 amCall for service15 min1595bf6a
Tue 13 Jan 202612:42 pmPatrol support15 min0786374a
Tue 13 Jan 20266:47 pmPatrol support20 minf5c8fee2
Tue 13 Jan 202610:06 pmPatrol support10 minc363c906
Thu 15 Jan 202611:50 pmPatrol support7 min87480643
Fri 16 Jan 20262:54 pmCall for service9 minecc0b4d4
Tue 20 Jan 20262:56 pmTraining and testing13 min37d1d4ca
Tue 20 Jan 20266:29 pmCall for service16 min245dbfb4
Wed 21 Jan 202612:09 pmTraining and testing8 minf7bf0eaa
Wed 21 Jan 20261:22 pmOther11 min1bb9e4c7
Wed 21 Jan 20262:47 pmTraining and testing2 min878c52e3
Wed 21 Jan 20267:35 pmPatrol support18 min8cec965f
Wed 21 Jan 20267:47 pmPatrol support16 min35b8e305
Thu 22 Jan 20264:01 pmTraining and testing1 min 46 sa37abb1b
Sat 24 Jan 20262:16 pmCall for service14 min12b85c10
Sat 24 Jan 20262:37 pmOther9 min03104bb8
Sat 24 Jan 20263:00 pmTraining and testing5 mind1caa137
Sat 24 Jan 20263:31 pmCall for service12 min8b41e046
Sat 24 Jan 20263:45 pmCall for service6 min9bb2a32f
Sat 24 Jan 20264:08 pmCall for service6 min0f4787f0
Tue 27 Jan 202610:38 amTraining and testing36 sc2f9103a
Tue 27 Jan 202612:54 pmCall for service4 min6a4a1998
Tue 27 Jan 20261:03 pmCall for service4 mind1edf4f2
Wed 28 Jan 20261:53 pmCall for service5 min696d1028
Wed 28 Jan 20263:31 pmCall for service13 min55e9e1ac
Thu 29 Jan 20263:05 pmCall for service5 minf69c39fd
Fri 30 Jan 20267:08 pmCall for service9 minaeae6692
Fri 30 Jan 20267:40 pmOther16 mine4a31c49
Fri 30 Jan 20267:54 pmPatrol support17 minf922f1ea
Fri 30 Jan 20268:50 pmOther14 min857bcfdc
Fri 30 Jan 20269:01 pmCall for service16 minb4a904b5
Fri 30 Jan 20269:35 pmCall for service4 mine7d59c9e

All 44 flights in January 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. "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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