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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower North, April 2026

A planning area page. 47 of the 3,951 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in April 2026.

47

drone flights crossed Lower North.

47

of them in April 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower North 47 times between 1 April 2026 and 29 April 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 April 2026.

47 of the 47 drawable flights that crossed the area in April 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

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

26% 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 47 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service38%
  2. Patrol support23%
  3. Drone as first responder15%
  4. Training and testing15%
  5. Traffic and crashes4%
  6. Other4%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, April 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 1 Apr 20268:08 pmTraffic and crashes13 minf53cc300
Thu 2 Apr 20262:16 pmPatrol support14 minaa1cc2b0
Thu 2 Apr 20262:23 pmPatrol support16 min006ea8da
Thu 2 Apr 20262:32 pmPatrol support14 minc2f327e0
Thu 2 Apr 20262:39 pmPatrol support13 min3528bce7
Thu 2 Apr 20262:47 pmPatrol support8 min2ce1ac54
Thu 2 Apr 20263:07 pmPatrol support9 min2f917b93
Thu 2 Apr 20264:18 pmDrone as first responder1 min 50 scf346a21
Fri 3 Apr 202611:40 amTraining and testing1 min 13 s23167a5b
Fri 3 Apr 20269:54 pmCall for service14 mince126c51
Fri 3 Apr 202610:20 pmTraffic and crashes13 min5ec411a0
Fri 3 Apr 202610:34 pmTraining and testing1 min 16 sc16c2c2c
Fri 3 Apr 202610:35 pmTraining and testing1 min 44 s94845d30
Fri 3 Apr 202610:38 pmCall for service16 minf9d9c09b
Fri 3 Apr 202610:54 pmCall for service18 min55bf7efe
Fri 3 Apr 202611:15 pmCall for service18 min81ecc15e
Fri 3 Apr 202611:37 pmCall for service11 min5988c20d
Sat 4 Apr 202612:39 pmTraining and testing2 min1a9a5e75
Sat 4 Apr 20268:26 pmCall for service14 min5a177f57
Sat 4 Apr 20269:34 pmCall for service12 min2fb39b69
Sat 4 Apr 20269:59 pmCall for service13 min99d4f5ad
Sat 4 Apr 202610:13 pmCall for service14 minb57721de
Sat 4 Apr 202610:45 pmCall for service16 mind924b084
Sat 4 Apr 202611:02 pmCall for service11 min35183d14
Tue 7 Apr 20268:29 pmPatrol support11 minbbcc6a51
Wed 8 Apr 20269:27 pmDrone as first responder15 min41310c6e
Thu 9 Apr 20266:03 pmTraining and testing1 min 09 se0e04ab0
Thu 9 Apr 20266:55 pmOther13 min158cf62f
Sat 11 Apr 20262:39 pmPatrol support13 min3030ce78
Sat 11 Apr 202610:12 pmTraining and testing1 min 08 s4f0581af
Thu 16 Apr 20267:51 pmDrone as first responder8 min021296ca
Fri 17 Apr 20263:56 pmCall for service8 minb9b56b25
Fri 17 Apr 20264:09 pmCall for service15 min48b2d711
Fri 17 Apr 20266:12 pmPatrol support19 min6753c686
Sat 18 Apr 202610:28 amCall for service11 min3d139316
Sat 18 Apr 202610:51 amCall for service8 minc4ebd60e
Sat 18 Apr 202612:31 pmCall for service14 min9f365248
Sat 18 Apr 20261:04 pmTraining and testing3 minc5228f07
Sat 18 Apr 20261:37 pmCall for service14 min5a822d27
Tue 21 Apr 202611:07 amPatrol support12 minab13b1c5
Tue 21 Apr 20263:52 pmPatrol support17 min8da0ec36
Thu 23 Apr 20265:46 pmDrone as first responder15 mina337b8ca
Thu 23 Apr 20266:10 pmOther36 sf8ae96c8
Thu 23 Apr 20266:24 pmDrone as first responder14 minc4bd00fd
Fri 24 Apr 202611:52 amCall for service13 mina6cafcad
Fri 24 Apr 20268:27 pmDrone as first responder10 min3a0a0e2a
Wed 29 Apr 202612:15 amDrone as first responder13 min0c0700a4

All 47 flights in April 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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