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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower Northeast, February 2026

A planning area page. 28 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in February 2026.

28

drone flights crossed Lower Northeast.

28

of them in February 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower Northeast 28 times between 4 February 2026 and 28 February 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 February 2026.

28 of the 28 drawable flights that crossed the area in February 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

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

4% 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 28 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service32%
  2. Drone as first responder25%
  3. Patrol support21%
  4. Not stated18%
  5. Other4%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, February 2026

DateTakeoff (EST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 4 Feb 20265:47 pmDrone as first responder16 min62499540
Thu 5 Feb 20266:13 pmNot stated18 mincb350b85
Fri 6 Feb 20265:22 pmCall for service11 min8496572e
Fri 6 Feb 20267:05 pmDrone as first responder12 minb8f90c99
Fri 6 Feb 20268:02 pmPatrol support14 min0b4565ab
Fri 6 Feb 20268:45 pmDrone as first responder14 min265246e5
Tue 10 Feb 202611:46 amPatrol support13 min52d7465b
Tue 10 Feb 20267:14 pmDrone as first responder15 mind2c4c139
Wed 11 Feb 20262:54 pmPatrol support8 minadc2c3da
Wed 11 Feb 20263:08 pmPatrol support12 min19539738
Wed 11 Feb 20263:24 pmPatrol support15 min851d28ee
Wed 11 Feb 20263:40 pmPatrol support15 min78e832ee
Wed 11 Feb 20263:51 pmDrone as first responder13 mind8eead0f
Wed 11 Feb 20264:06 pmNot stated6 min9555c2a7
Thu 12 Feb 202611:10 amCall for service11 minaddc3618
Thu 12 Feb 20262:20 pmDrone as first responder11 min7e45f552
Thu 12 Feb 20268:20 pmCall for service10 min33f2653f
Fri 13 Feb 202610:59 amNot stated8 mina9500b6b
Fri 13 Feb 202611:54 amNot stated14 min5868124a
Fri 13 Feb 20266:34 pmCall for service12 mind2db7e0a
Fri 13 Feb 20267:05 pmCall for service11 min0297182d
Fri 13 Feb 20268:43 pmNot stated10 min901eb7f2
Fri 13 Feb 202610:29 pmCall for service11 minc028b9c5
Wed 18 Feb 20261:32 pmCall for service13 min5674b5b6
Fri 27 Feb 20265:56 pmOther17 min7b96e65b
Fri 27 Feb 20267:32 pmCall for service15 min2c24318d
Fri 27 Feb 20268:25 pmCall for service11 min65630ecc
Sat 28 Feb 20265:17 pmDrone as first responder6 mine9c5e107

All 28 flights in February 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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