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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower North, May 2026

A planning area page. 108 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

108

drone flights crossed Lower North.

108

of them in May 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower North 108 times between 1 May 2026 and 29 May 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 May 2026.

108 of the 108 drawable flights that crossed the area in May 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

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

16% 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 108 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Drone as first responder65%
  2. Call for service22%
  3. Training and testing6%
  4. Patrol support6%
  5. Not stated1%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, May 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 1 May 20268:51 pmCall for service15 minab12435e
Sat 2 May 20262:26 pmCall for service6 min84a8dcdb
Tue 5 May 20262:10 pmDrone as first responder14 min2496605b
Tue 5 May 20268:51 pmPatrol support10 min952d93e3
Tue 5 May 20269:01 pmPatrol support11 min42cabe43
Tue 5 May 20269:51 pmDrone as first responder14 minebceda62
Tue 5 May 202610:41 pmDrone as first responder11 min15b1be6a
Thu 7 May 202611:47 amDrone as first responder14 min14a12d62
Thu 7 May 202612:32 pmDrone as first responder11 min266e175c
Thu 7 May 20265:13 pmDrone as first responder8 min674c9ec9
Thu 7 May 20265:24 pmTraining and testing35 s8f1dabcb
Thu 7 May 20265:38 pmDrone as first responder6 min9534e867
Thu 7 May 20265:49 pmDrone as first responder7 min56632cac
Thu 7 May 20266:26 pmDrone as first responder16 min1a95c8f0
Thu 7 May 20267:18 pmDrone as first responder8 min6df9f769
Thu 7 May 20267:43 pmDrone as first responder9 minc12b9fc4
Thu 7 May 20269:46 pmDrone as first responder14 min4648ae74
Fri 8 May 202611:07 amDrone as first responder13 min800bfbf6
Fri 8 May 202612:18 pmPatrol support12 minb1ffaf95
Fri 8 May 202612:21 pmDrone as first responder7 min6e9b5783
Fri 8 May 20263:20 pmDrone as first responder9 min00407a9d
Fri 8 May 20267:04 pmDrone as first responder5 mindd86aad2
Fri 8 May 20268:07 pmDrone as first responder18 min90abbe02
Fri 8 May 20268:55 pmDrone as first responder12 min47acdecc
Fri 8 May 202611:06 pmDrone as first responder10 min89b1295a
Sat 9 May 20262:43 pmDrone as first responder15 min6644029d
Sat 9 May 20264:20 pmDrone as first responder11 min9b9ff401
Sat 9 May 20268:30 pmPatrol support10 mine3e5e1d4
Sat 9 May 20268:39 pmPatrol support11 min4590605b
Sat 9 May 20268:42 pmPatrol support16 min115a77bf
Sat 9 May 20269:20 pmDrone as first responder15 min7636eed6
Sat 9 May 20269:21 pmDrone as first responder12 minf178ab23
Sat 9 May 20269:22 pmDrone as first responder12 minedb1ae63
Sat 9 May 202610:37 pmDrone as first responder6 mindc2dfd3f
Sat 9 May 202610:46 pmDrone as first responder15 minfdb48346
Sat 9 May 202611:05 pmDrone as first responder6 min0e2449f3
Tue 12 May 202611:29 amDrone as first responder10 min37025cad
Tue 12 May 202612:16 pmDrone as first responder6 mine91e3fce
Tue 12 May 20261:19 pmDrone as first responder15 mine01f7037
Tue 12 May 20262:08 pmDrone as first responder10 min76d490e5
Tue 12 May 20262:51 pmDrone as first responder14 minaf67a793
Tue 12 May 20264:21 pmDrone as first responder4 minf66bc397
Tue 12 May 20268:10 pmCall for service17 min4c380332
Tue 12 May 20268:23 pmDrone as first responder14 min0de92a44
Tue 12 May 20268:48 pmCall for service11 min4246986f
Tue 12 May 202611:18 pmCall for service5 min8b178661
Wed 13 May 202610:39 amDrone as first responder13 minc1399e95
Wed 13 May 202611:21 amDrone as first responder17 min4ac9a03c
Wed 13 May 20267:02 pmCall for service7 minaaf9b31a
Wed 13 May 20269:17 pmCall for service15 min617e36d8
Wed 13 May 20269:33 pmCall for service15 min349a3eb2
Thu 14 May 202612:15 pmDrone as first responder14 minbffd3146
Thu 14 May 202612:24 pmDrone as first responder15 min49324b8a
Thu 14 May 202610:04 pmCall for service4 min47c171aa
Fri 15 May 202611:08 amDrone as first responder11 min36efdaed
Fri 15 May 202611:34 amNot stated6 min6f135a74
Fri 15 May 202612:24 pmDrone as first responder7 min7dc8f1ec
Fri 15 May 20262:54 pmDrone as first responder10 min211748ab
Fri 15 May 20263:51 pmDrone as first responder9 mine8cc0b9f
Fri 15 May 20266:06 pmDrone as first responder17 min6b603197
Fri 15 May 20269:39 pmCall for service16 min9e4b4fc2
Fri 15 May 202610:14 pmCall for service11 min719b87ef
Fri 15 May 202611:07 pmCall for service8 mine62a0248
Sat 16 May 20267:03 pmCall for service17 min11278b08
Sat 16 May 20267:21 pmCall for service9 min4b21163e
Sat 16 May 202611:00 pmTraining and testing1 min 07 sb6d82d96
Sat 16 May 202611:14 pmCall for service18 min1e129072
Tue 19 May 202611:03 amDrone as first responder17 minf861c967
Tue 19 May 202611:56 amDrone as first responder17 min7523a5c7
Tue 19 May 20263:07 pmDrone as first responder18 min1063b393
Tue 19 May 20263:42 pmDrone as first responder18 min6535887f
Tue 19 May 20264:16 pmDrone as first responder16 mindf6fd571
Wed 20 May 202612:06 pmDrone as first responder15 min64b96db5
Wed 20 May 20261:05 pmDrone as first responder17 min7ea02fc9
Wed 20 May 20261:25 pmDrone as first responder15 minc2152bac
Wed 20 May 20261:53 pmDrone as first responder16 minae50e95d
Wed 20 May 20262:18 pmDrone as first responder20 min3f153a3e
Wed 20 May 20263:05 pmDrone as first responder17 min5159d639
Wed 20 May 20263:23 pmDrone as first responder16 minf3314b08
Wed 20 May 202610:05 pmTraining and testing1 min 15 sfa5af5df
Wed 20 May 202610:33 pmDrone as first responder5 min74a58f18
Thu 21 May 202611:42 amTraining and testing5 mine5d0e7ba
Thu 21 May 20263:51 pmCall for service15 minade6a8d1
Thu 21 May 20264:23 pmDrone as first responder15 min341f5e04
Fri 22 May 20266:53 pmDrone as first responder13 min5db6a78e
Fri 22 May 20267:11 pmDrone as first responder15 minfbeab373
Fri 22 May 20267:54 pmDrone as first responder7 minaa498f43
Fri 22 May 20269:57 pmTraining and testing4 minf3f535fe
Fri 22 May 202610:16 pmDrone as first responder7 min5a939939
Fri 22 May 202610:57 pmDrone as first responder8 min68133556
Sat 23 May 202610:41 pmTraining and testing1 min 02 s483f07c0
Tue 26 May 202610:56 amDrone as first responder7 min6162ba14
Tue 26 May 20266:39 pmDrone as first responder14 min7803f624
Tue 26 May 20266:49 pmCall for service12 minb2e895b7
Tue 26 May 202610:36 pmCall for service13 minbeae36dd
Wed 27 May 20266:50 pmCall for service12 mind476c5c1
Wed 27 May 20268:02 pmCall for service8 min0cccecf2
Wed 27 May 20268:35 pmCall for service16 mina1ed5a8f
Wed 27 May 20269:04 pmCall for service7 min93ad28b3
Thu 28 May 202611:07 amDrone as first responder9 mind1bf34aa
Fri 29 May 20261:52 pmDrone as first responder17 minbf164861
Fri 29 May 20262:04 pmDrone as first responder13 mindfa0dc31
Fri 29 May 20263:44 pmDrone as first responder6 min7641ccd9
Fri 29 May 20265:00 pmTraining and testing5 minc5610eea
Fri 29 May 20267:14 pmDrone as first responder20 min43bd4098
Fri 29 May 20267:57 pmCall for service14 min14a1268c
Fri 29 May 20268:19 pmCall for service12 min3b6f9d42
Fri 29 May 20269:30 pmDrone as first responder11 min00f4906a

All 108 flights in May 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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