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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower North, July 2026

A planning area page. 112 of the 3,951 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in July 2026.

112

drone flights crossed Lower North.

112

of them in July 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower North 112 times between 1 July 2026 and 31 July 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 July 2026.

112 of the 112 drawable flights that crossed the area in July 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

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

19% 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 112 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service54%
  2. Events12%
  3. Drone as first responder11%
  4. Patrol support10%
  5. Other8%
  6. Traffic and crashes3%
  7. Training and testing2%
  8. Not stated1%
  9. Search1%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, July 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 1 Jul 202611:46 amTraining and testing51 se0e731db
Wed 1 Jul 20261:07 pmCall for service17 mina6a80183
Wed 1 Jul 20262:52 pmCall for service10 min4d928674
Wed 1 Jul 20263:30 pmCall for service14 min3e6369a3
Thu 2 Jul 20261:33 pmDrone as first responder8 min7c85058f
Thu 2 Jul 20264:22 pmCall for service11 min3bef1dae
Thu 2 Jul 20265:09 pmCall for service10 mine18c6503
Thu 2 Jul 202610:27 pmDrone as first responder14 minb423a7bd
Thu 2 Jul 202611:06 pmDrone as first responder16 min0ed1750a
Fri 3 Jul 20261:01 pmCall for service21 minee5a7113
Fri 3 Jul 20261:40 pmPatrol support19 minb8598cc8
Fri 3 Jul 20263:03 pmOther15 min7b76139d
Fri 3 Jul 20264:20 pmOther13 minde5c0e7f
Fri 3 Jul 20266:55 pmDrone as first responder12 min90a3d054
Fri 3 Jul 20267:16 pmDrone as first responder8 mina36f60c1
Fri 3 Jul 20267:45 pmDrone as first responder11 mina420b3f1
Sat 4 Jul 20263:47 pmOther11 min426110c9
Sat 4 Jul 20264:11 pmDrone as first responder9 min965018a7
Sat 4 Jul 20265:14 pmNot stated9 min710dfd65
Sun 5 Jul 20262:50 pmEvents14 min2fbb1707
Sun 5 Jul 20264:55 pmEvents20 min5b66038c
Tue 7 Jul 20265:49 pmEvents20 minbd928f31
Wed 8 Jul 20265:02 pmEvents20 min13ac1c9c
Wed 8 Jul 20266:53 pmEvents20 min96f4a0c4
Wed 8 Jul 20268:48 pmEvents8 mincef86007
Wed 8 Jul 202610:28 pmPatrol support20 minc3210cc1
Thu 9 Jul 20267:06 pmCall for service18 min9ac71975
Thu 9 Jul 20269:10 pmTraffic and crashes16 min560803b7
Fri 10 Jul 20262:03 pmOther21 min0232d36c
Fri 10 Jul 20264:54 pmEvents22 min5e4a4784
Fri 10 Jul 20268:01 pmOther21 minff67a428
Fri 10 Jul 20268:38 pmCall for service16 min8383100e
Fri 10 Jul 202610:18 pmCall for service11 min5a4fcb8f
Fri 10 Jul 202610:34 pmCall for service21 minb1b1c02f
Fri 10 Jul 202611:15 pmCall for service22 minb8957750
Fri 10 Jul 202611:36 pmCall for service8 minddfb9696
Fri 10 Jul 202611:49 pmOther10 min9e32a080
Sat 11 Jul 20261:18 pmDrone as first responder17 min5e1caba5
Sat 11 Jul 20265:22 pmEvents23 min133ef01b
Sat 11 Jul 20266:02 pmCall for service5 min57362aa1
Sat 11 Jul 20266:08 pmCall for service6 min99bd6a79
Sat 11 Jul 20266:30 pmCall for service11 min6b342997
Sat 11 Jul 20267:13 pmTraffic and crashes6 min790daeab
Sat 11 Jul 20267:35 pmCall for service12 min8a562573
Sat 11 Jul 20269:17 pmCall for service17 mincbbe9cf1
Sat 11 Jul 20269:59 pmCall for service11 min78de00db
Sat 11 Jul 202610:24 pmCall for service11 min12516590
Sat 11 Jul 202610:35 pmCall for service12 min576c64d4
Sat 11 Jul 202611:00 pmEvents22 min3be2c8dc
Mon 13 Jul 20265:34 pmEvents15 mince293faf
Mon 13 Jul 20268:50 pmEvents7 min8aab3d58
Tue 14 Jul 202611:21 amCall for service9 min4efea8d8
Tue 14 Jul 20263:00 pmEvents20 min6efc413e
Tue 14 Jul 20265:05 pmEvents19 min5fbdbae6
Tue 14 Jul 20268:05 pmCall for service15 min99c81b8f
Tue 14 Jul 20268:21 pmCall for service10 min73aeffbf
Tue 14 Jul 20268:36 pmCall for service10 min44a8381a
Wed 15 Jul 202611:15 amPatrol support14 min8fec7be5
Wed 15 Jul 202612:19 pmCall for service19 min6c9523a1
Wed 15 Jul 20261:00 pmCall for service9 min4b96bfc3
Wed 15 Jul 20262:50 pmPatrol support16 minba6a165f
Wed 15 Jul 20263:26 pmCall for service21 min99c06ffd
Thu 16 Jul 202610:56 amCall for service17 min8e0ff26b
Thu 16 Jul 202612:30 pmCall for service3 min2e23a42b
Thu 16 Jul 20262:12 pmCall for service18 min6f1f9807
Thu 16 Jul 20262:30 pmCall for service16 mina85c0b06
Thu 16 Jul 20263:42 pmCall for service6 min6cc5d27e
Fri 17 Jul 202611:37 amDrone as first responder7 min98e0bb43
Fri 17 Jul 202612:06 pmCall for service8 min9406da50
Fri 17 Jul 202612:27 pmOther11 min25be4a58
Fri 17 Jul 20263:59 pmCall for service5 mine4a9b95c
Sat 18 Jul 202611:58 amCall for service10 min2f6c6e5e
Tue 21 Jul 20269:47 pmCall for service5 min72e8bb6b
Wed 22 Jul 20265:34 pmCall for service9 minb213706a
Wed 22 Jul 20269:29 pmTraining and testing16 min7b8c68c9
Thu 23 Jul 20265:50 pmCall for service10 minf889bc63
Thu 23 Jul 20266:27 pmCall for service12 mine11eaca5
Thu 23 Jul 20266:52 pmPatrol support16 minae84be87
Thu 23 Jul 20267:09 pmPatrol support18 min0afd5a3f
Thu 23 Jul 20267:30 pmPatrol support14 min0e2de2c2
Thu 23 Jul 20267:45 pmPatrol support16 mined4090d0
Thu 23 Jul 20268:56 pmCall for service10 min1af25558
Thu 23 Jul 202610:07 pmCall for service18 minbb5fd48b
Thu 23 Jul 202610:53 pmCall for service6 min1fef54aa
Fri 24 Jul 20267:05 pmCall for service9 min1f502c17
Fri 24 Jul 202610:57 pmCall for service14 min3ef4c2dc
Fri 24 Jul 202611:12 pmCall for service19 min46cc26bb
Fri 24 Jul 202611:34 pmCall for service20 min971a6dd4
Sat 25 Jul 202612:03 amDrone as first responder16 min0b0cd14c
Sat 25 Jul 202612:16 amDrone as first responder13 minbd8e9f37
Sat 25 Jul 20266:56 pmDrone as first responder6 min8329d4a4
Sat 25 Jul 20267:41 pmCall for service18 minbd7e2bac
Sat 25 Jul 20268:23 pmSearch11 mina8876b2f
Tue 28 Jul 202612:46 pmPatrol support18 minaeb7c418
Tue 28 Jul 20265:18 pmCall for service6 minba08bef1
Tue 28 Jul 20265:54 pmCall for service7 min29e6926c
Tue 28 Jul 20266:30 pmCall for service5 mine09504a5
Tue 28 Jul 20267:11 pmPatrol support7 minff8b5a92
Wed 29 Jul 202612:11 pmCall for service17 min54931363
Thu 30 Jul 20266:30 pmCall for service17 min6a1c5086
Thu 30 Jul 20266:44 pmOther16 mina302e2eb
Thu 30 Jul 20267:01 pmOther16 min0faecfab
Thu 30 Jul 20267:20 pmTraffic and crashes2 minf427e248
Thu 30 Jul 20267:53 pmCall for service13 mind18d996d
Thu 30 Jul 20269:18 pmCall for service13 minb006de3f
Thu 30 Jul 202610:33 pmCall for service14 mineef874a0
Thu 30 Jul 202610:59 pmCall for service12 min3f5e3a93
Fri 31 Jul 20264:34 pmPatrol support5 min9d015ea8
Fri 31 Jul 20266:24 pmCall for service9 minb3f19bac
Fri 31 Jul 20266:43 pmCall for service10 min4857b032
Fri 31 Jul 20269:49 pmCall for service13 min43e33216
Fri 31 Jul 202610:53 pmCall for service14 min681d921d

All 112 flights in July 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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