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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower Northeast, March 2026

A planning area page. 45 of the 3,951 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in March 2026.

45

drone flights crossed Lower Northeast.

45

of them in March 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower Northeast 45 times between 4 March 2026 and 28 March 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 March 2026.

45 of the 45 drawable flights that crossed the area in March 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

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

2% 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 45 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service53%
  2. Other11%
  3. Drone as first responder11%
  4. Training and testing9%
  5. Search7%
  6. Not stated7%
  7. Patrol support2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, March 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 4 Mar 20266:03 pmCall for service11 mina43827c6
Wed 4 Mar 20266:50 pmCall for service11 min5eee6b47
Wed 4 Mar 20267:21 pmCall for service14 min73f4488c
Thu 5 Mar 20262:36 pmCall for service11 min8ccdb6a8
Fri 6 Mar 202610:19 amOther12 mina72787d4
Fri 6 Mar 202610:40 amCall for service10 mine8039b66
Fri 6 Mar 202611:18 amCall for service11 min868aac7a
Fri 6 Mar 202612:05 pmSearch13 minbc5af64d
Fri 6 Mar 202612:27 pmSearch12 min11290570
Fri 6 Mar 20262:42 pmOther7 min0cf41a9e
Fri 6 Mar 20263:26 pmNot stated9 min3e33dd35
Fri 6 Mar 20263:55 pmNot stated8 minbcc129a4
Fri 6 Mar 20266:21 pmOther8 mindde80124
Fri 6 Mar 20269:02 pmCall for service14 min46a3fa3f
Sat 7 Mar 20265:31 pmSearch13 min674862ec
Sat 7 Mar 20267:02 pmCall for service13 min950e7bca
Sat 7 Mar 20267:16 pmCall for service10 min63688686
Sat 7 Mar 20267:27 pmCall for service15 min25664e8f
Sat 7 Mar 20268:22 pmCall for service16 min5519f556
Wed 11 Mar 20262:10 pmDrone as first responder12 min6f4a089f
Wed 11 Mar 20263:40 pmDrone as first responder11 mindb6bf32f
Fri 13 Mar 20263:52 pmDrone as first responder9 min47346159
Fri 13 Mar 20268:07 pmTraining and testing7 min4d9ae31a
Fri 13 Mar 20268:15 pmTraining and testing13 mind2835d57
Tue 17 Mar 20262:58 pmTraining and testing10 min980f72b1
Wed 18 Mar 20262:50 pmCall for service6 min3e99e9aa
Wed 18 Mar 20265:39 pmDrone as first responder14 min2b88ec31
Thu 19 Mar 20267:21 pmNot stated13 mine58905a6
Sat 21 Mar 202611:21 amCall for service13 min2a862191
Sat 21 Mar 202612:54 pmCall for service13 minec2733bf
Sat 21 Mar 20261:09 pmCall for service13 min1139617a
Sat 21 Mar 20262:29 pmCall for service15 min42a9d076
Sat 21 Mar 20268:50 pmCall for service13 min19c6d370
Tue 24 Mar 20266:33 pmDrone as first responder17 mina0938e9e
Tue 24 Mar 20266:56 pmCall for service14 mine738a950
Wed 25 Mar 20267:10 pmTraining and testing4 min6b247a2e
Thu 26 Mar 20265:30 pmCall for service13 minec2b7cd1
Thu 26 Mar 20268:15 pmCall for service12 min3cdaa418
Thu 26 Mar 202610:09 pmOther7 min9dcc6655
Fri 27 Mar 20265:37 pmCall for service12 min13ad7279
Fri 27 Mar 20265:56 pmPatrol support14 minc217c741
Fri 27 Mar 20267:22 pmCall for service7 mina87d982d
Fri 27 Mar 20267:39 pmCall for service10 minf74e8409
Fri 27 Mar 20269:09 pmOther9 min1e2a8dec
Sat 28 Mar 20266:19 pmCall for service14 min5d565161

All 45 flights in March 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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