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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower Northeast, January 2026

A planning area page. 24 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in January 2026.

24

drone flights crossed Lower Northeast.

24

of them in January 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower Northeast 24 times between 2 January 2026 and 30 January 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 January 2026.

24 of the 24 drawable flights that crossed the area in January 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 NortheastOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

12% 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 24 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service71%
  2. Other12%
  3. Patrol support8%
  4. Training and testing4%
  5. Traffic and crashes4%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, January 2026

DateTakeoff (EST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 2 Jan 202612:26 pmCall for service18 minb160bbcc
Fri 2 Jan 20261:20 pmCall for service11 minfc8ea5cf
Fri 2 Jan 20262:40 pmOther11 min58b35cb8
Fri 2 Jan 20263:21 pmCall for service15 min3c024913
Fri 2 Jan 20264:02 pmCall for service14 mind1eb0c31
Thu 15 Jan 20261:08 pmCall for service13 min34c8aec7
Tue 20 Jan 20266:18 pmCall for service4 minad231026
Tue 20 Jan 20266:31 pmCall for service10 min6d967ea8
Tue 20 Jan 20269:50 pmCall for service9 min671e321f
Thu 22 Jan 202610:20 amCall for service12 mina85e1a6d
Thu 22 Jan 20263:25 pmCall for service6 mind31e8f85
Thu 22 Jan 20264:11 pmCall for service7 min573d7dc5
Thu 22 Jan 202610:22 pmCall for service10 mindc9af4a1
Thu 22 Jan 202610:56 pmCall for service14 minb28cfa2e
Fri 23 Jan 202610:18 amOther8 min1a0baab3
Fri 23 Jan 202611:16 amTraining and testing10 min1bb29cdd
Fri 23 Jan 202611:57 amTraffic and crashes7 minab14ad65
Fri 23 Jan 20262:09 pmCall for service11 minae8d4793
Fri 23 Jan 20262:28 pmOther7 min7cc52c20
Fri 23 Jan 20262:51 pmPatrol support11 min89fc18a0
Sat 24 Jan 20266:56 pmCall for service5 minc7b3fc12
Sat 24 Jan 202610:23 pmPatrol support5 min85e86500
Fri 30 Jan 20269:10 pmCall for service10 mincfe21dca
Fri 30 Jan 20269:48 pmCall for service15 mina9f4324f

All 24 flights in January 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 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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