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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower North, February 2026

A planning area page. 31 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in February 2026.

31

drone flights crossed Lower North.

31

of them in February 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower North 31 times between 4 February 2026 and 28 February 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 February 2026.

31 of the 31 drawable flights that crossed the area in February 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.

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

1 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 31 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service39%
  2. Not stated19%
  3. Drone as first responder16%
  4. Other10%
  5. Patrol support10%
  6. Training and testing6%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, February 2026

DateTakeoff (EST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 4 Feb 20269:52 pmNot stated13 min10c6689f
Thu 5 Feb 20262:55 pmOther14 mindd5a99a5
Thu 5 Feb 20265:08 pmNot stated11 min8833fc74
Thu 5 Feb 202610:10 pmNot stated12 mina03db869
Fri 6 Feb 20262:41 pmTraining and testing11 min2cab01f3
Fri 6 Feb 202610:33 pmCall for service12 min689b6160
Fri 6 Feb 202610:41 pmTraining and testing2 min843bf712
Tue 10 Feb 20267:44 pmDrone as first responder14 min927dc779
Wed 11 Feb 202610:20 amCall for service14 min6395ddb1
Wed 11 Feb 202611:12 amOther12 min58457069
Wed 11 Feb 202611:25 amOther15 min2c8b5515
Wed 11 Feb 202611:34 amNot stated12 mina4a278f1
Thu 12 Feb 202612:55 pmCall for service16 mindeee32bc
Thu 12 Feb 20267:02 pmDrone as first responder14 min1ec22e31
Thu 12 Feb 20267:43 pmPatrol support11 min4b30ab17
Thu 12 Feb 20268:02 pmPatrol support15 min4e4853ca
Fri 13 Feb 202611:07 amCall for service19 min4f46993e
Fri 13 Feb 202611:27 amCall for service18 min378373f3
Tue 17 Feb 20262:14 pmCall for service18 min6b1f5e7a
Tue 17 Feb 20265:23 pmCall for service16 minecb81235
Tue 17 Feb 20267:09 pmCall for service18 min9d7b7524
Tue 17 Feb 20269:40 pmCall for service16 min55a40b65
Wed 18 Feb 20267:49 pmCall for service11 min2016afc3
Wed 18 Feb 20268:23 pmCall for service15 mineaa180ec
Sat 21 Feb 20267:36 pmCall for service5 minc9c35485
Wed 25 Feb 20266:11 pmPatrol support7 min41736f47
Fri 27 Feb 202612:41 pmNot stated11 minc704ec02
Fri 27 Feb 20268:21 pmNot stated10 min76e0d381
Fri 27 Feb 20268:51 pmDrone as first responder10 minefb7405e
Sat 28 Feb 202612:52 pmDrone as first responder17 min0f4548b6
Sat 28 Feb 20265:48 pmDrone as first responder8 minb63f9a85

All 31 flights in February 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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