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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower North, November 2026

A planning area page. 10 of the 3,951 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in November 2026.

10

drone flights crossed Lower North.

10

of them in November 2026.

19 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower North 10 times between 1 November 2026 and 3 November 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 3 November 2026.

10 of the 10 drawable flights that crossed the area in November 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

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

50% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (EST).

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 10 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service80%
  2. Patrol support10%
  3. Other10%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, November 2026

DateTakeoff (EST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sun 1 Nov 202612:05 amCall for service21 mine7a9e21c
Sun 1 Nov 202612:26 amCall for service21 mina773ef1e
Sun 1 Nov 202612:46 amCall for service19 minb487a087
Sun 1 Nov 20261:03 amCall for service21 min78335fc7
Sun 1 Nov 20261:26 amCall for service20 min62ee651a
Tue 3 Nov 20269:58 amPatrol support10 min490c5988
Tue 3 Nov 202610:35 amCall for service16 min57c11b16
Tue 3 Nov 202611:32 amOther19 min7aaad36c
Tue 3 Nov 202611:55 amCall for service13 min8526d1c8
Tue 3 Nov 202612:28 pmCall for service10 min518b76e3

All 10 flights in November 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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