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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower Northeast, October 2025

A planning area page. 20 of the 3,951 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in October 2025.

20

drone flights crossed Lower Northeast.

20

of them in October 2025.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower Northeast 20 times between 1 October 2025 and 29 October 2025, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 October 2025.

20 of the 20 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 2025. 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 NortheastOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

0% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (EDT).

1 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 20 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service55%
  2. Other30%
  3. Patrol support10%
  4. Not stated5%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2025

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 1 Oct 20251:48 pmCall for service13 minbace26d0
Sat 4 Oct 20251:23 pmCall for service19 minb35a9f8b
Sat 4 Oct 20252:34 pmCall for service12 minc3a7ed32
Sat 4 Oct 20253:37 pmCall for service22 minaccdcd09
Sat 4 Oct 20253:54 pmPatrol support18 min32b65c17
Sat 4 Oct 20254:11 pmCall for service10 min84d10598
Tue 7 Oct 202511:18 amCall for service9 min1ceabb30
Tue 7 Oct 20251:32 pmCall for service13 mindb119211
Tue 7 Oct 20252:32 pmOther13 min4b46a1b6
Tue 7 Oct 20254:43 pmPatrol support16 min1bf75db6
Wed 8 Oct 20252:52 pmCall for service15 min4b1ae1c9
Thu 9 Oct 20256:15 pmCall for service13 min42523c02
Thu 9 Oct 20257:07 pmOther9 minfa03348c
Thu 9 Oct 20258:28 pmCall for service11 minebf68067
Thu 9 Oct 20258:57 pmNot stated12 min185dab4e
Thu 9 Oct 20259:34 pmOther14 mindc8dc569
Thu 9 Oct 20259:54 pmOther11 min4d86ee74
Sat 11 Oct 20256:13 pmCall for service17 minaa016142
Sat 11 Oct 20258:26 pmOther13 min64c1669a
Wed 29 Oct 20259:16 pmOther15 minb34a39f3

All 20 flights in October 2025. 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 Northeast" 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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