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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower North, March 2026

A planning area page. 65 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in March 2026.

65

drone flights crossed Lower North.

65

of them in March 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower North 65 times between 4 March 2026 and 31 March 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 March 2026.

65 of the 65 drawable flights that crossed the area in March 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

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

6% 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 65 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service28%
  2. Drone as first responder26%
  3. Not stated20%
  4. Training and testing14%
  5. Other9%
  6. Patrol support3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, March 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 4 Mar 20261:41 pmDrone as first responder16 min64811ef0
Wed 4 Mar 20262:45 pmDrone as first responder19 minf5b5c2e6
Wed 4 Mar 20268:52 pmCall for service6 mincc2b0270
Thu 5 Mar 202610:40 amDrone as first responder14 min729546bb
Thu 5 Mar 20267:30 pmTraining and testing1 min 08 s40ba73f5
Fri 6 Mar 202610:15 amTraining and testing9 min587a00f9
Fri 6 Mar 202610:26 amTraining and testing10 mincfffe3ce
Fri 6 Mar 202611:04 amTraining and testing8 min99bd5b24
Fri 6 Mar 202612:46 pmDrone as first responder14 minf18f4a79
Fri 6 Mar 20261:01 pmNot stated15 mincb0db061
Fri 6 Mar 20261:05 pmDrone as first responder16 min6816a3ea
Fri 6 Mar 20261:18 pmNot stated59 sfbe9a2ed
Fri 6 Mar 20261:28 pmCall for service20 min2efc746c
Fri 6 Mar 20261:53 pmNot stated17 minf91c7fa9
Fri 6 Mar 20268:13 pmCall for service17 mind1dac53c
Sat 7 Mar 20264:49 pmDrone as first responder15 min9e20f1c0
Tue 10 Mar 202611:02 amNot stated14 mind2ac8d65
Tue 10 Mar 202611:17 amCall for service14 min2e382643
Tue 10 Mar 20262:53 pmCall for service14 minb4cc54b7
Tue 10 Mar 20263:51 pmCall for service14 min236566b8
Tue 10 Mar 20265:23 pmCall for service14 min2cca63d5
Tue 10 Mar 20265:50 pmOther6 min125f8ea1
Tue 10 Mar 20265:59 pmCall for service3 min244b7bbb
Tue 10 Mar 20266:07 pmCall for service9 min192868cb
Tue 10 Mar 20266:26 pmNot stated10 minbf7398a9
Tue 10 Mar 20266:46 pmNot stated16 min8455680b
Tue 10 Mar 20268:30 pmNot stated11 min19035df7
Tue 10 Mar 20269:34 pmCall for service18 min0c54b0d4
Tue 10 Mar 20269:53 pmNot stated17 min0b645453
Tue 10 Mar 202610:40 pmNot stated19 min1aeade3f
Tue 10 Mar 202611:10 pmNot stated9 mine101e5f1
Tue 10 Mar 202611:31 pmNot stated10 mine60dbbd1
Wed 11 Mar 202611:26 amOther4 min9a5ea80a
Wed 11 Mar 20261:09 pmOther5 mind3796a1f
Wed 11 Mar 20261:33 pmCall for service8 minb5643e5b
Wed 11 Mar 20263:15 pmOther11 min93ff12d2
Thu 12 Mar 20262:08 pmCall for service7 min761843f5
Thu 12 Mar 20262:22 pmTraining and testing7 min96f3d8e4
Fri 13 Mar 202610:41 amCall for service7 mina58b853d
Fri 13 Mar 202612:45 pmCall for service6 minadf0b4f3
Fri 13 Mar 20261:00 pmOther7 min55f714d9
Fri 13 Mar 20262:14 pmCall for service9 min2affc649
Tue 17 Mar 20265:38 pmDrone as first responder11 min3571a89a
Wed 18 Mar 20262:21 pmDrone as first responder17 min7f1e309c
Wed 18 Mar 20263:23 pmDrone as first responder11 min13c861e3
Wed 18 Mar 20266:32 pmPatrol support13 min7a23572b
Wed 18 Mar 20269:13 pmCall for service7 min2b812171
Wed 18 Mar 20269:26 pmCall for service6 min6fc31f84
Thu 19 Mar 202612:06 pmTraining and testing56 sebd7ad28
Fri 20 Mar 202610:31 amDrone as first responder3 min0fd96e7c
Fri 20 Mar 202611:38 amDrone as first responder12 mine3dcb3a2
Fri 20 Mar 202612:57 pmPatrol support14 minf99ec268
Fri 20 Mar 20266:29 pmDrone as first responder18 min30908bc3
Sat 21 Mar 202612:49 pmDrone as first responder7 minc4a365f2
Sat 21 Mar 20267:21 pmCall for service11 min611b75a2
Tue 24 Mar 20265:56 pmDrone as first responder16 min8152ff14
Tue 24 Mar 20267:03 pmDrone as first responder9 minf5daecf1
Wed 25 Mar 20267:13 pmNot stated5 min4a66fd11
Wed 25 Mar 20268:11 pmTraining and testing1 min 51 sa8c1bdfe
Thu 26 Mar 20268:59 pmTraining and testing12 minc0868a74
Thu 26 Mar 202610:14 pmDrone as first responder9 mina2bce6f7
Sat 28 Mar 20266:42 pmOther5 min9cab7bf9
Sat 28 Mar 20268:27 pmNot stated15 mina9041066
Sat 28 Mar 20269:13 pmDrone as first responder8 mine64fc35d
Tue 31 Mar 20267:59 pmTraining and testing1 min 42 sa503e549

All 65 flights in March 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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