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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower Northeast, April 2026

A planning area page. 37 of the 3,976 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in April 2026.

37

drone flights crossed Lower Northeast.

37

of them in April 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower Northeast 37 times between 4 April 2026 and 29 April 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 April 2026.

37 of the 37 drawable flights that crossed the area in April 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

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

5% 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 37 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service46%
  2. Not stated30%
  3. Drone as first responder16%
  4. Patrol support5%
  5. Training and testing3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, April 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sat 4 Apr 202610:45 amNot stated14 min53e775ff
Sat 4 Apr 202612:48 pmCall for service18 min254282bd
Sat 4 Apr 20261:46 pmCall for service10 min2128a43c
Sat 4 Apr 20262:35 pmCall for service6 min4f642c9b
Wed 8 Apr 20267:36 pmDrone as first responder15 min4e1f769e
Thu 9 Apr 20264:29 pmNot stated7 min00cdcb63
Thu 9 Apr 20265:44 pmNot stated8 min5369625a
Thu 9 Apr 20267:29 pmTraining and testing5 min6cf9b694
Tue 14 Apr 20265:33 pmCall for service9 minc2f50a74
Tue 14 Apr 20267:38 pmCall for service9 min81403dc4
Tue 14 Apr 20268:29 pmCall for service14 minc04994d3
Tue 14 Apr 20269:04 pmCall for service9 min2de0d3ae
Tue 14 Apr 20269:23 pmCall for service10 minbb1b3daa
Wed 15 Apr 20267:08 pmCall for service8 min2bb65dc6
Thu 16 Apr 20261:16 pmNot stated14 minf43de118
Thu 16 Apr 20261:20 pmDrone as first responder12 min82d5734d
Thu 16 Apr 20261:33 pmNot stated8 mincc30b96c
Thu 16 Apr 20261:45 pmCall for service14 min1908b0e7
Thu 16 Apr 20262:18 pmCall for service8 min2efbf12f
Thu 16 Apr 20262:37 pmDrone as first responder19 min35077f2a
Thu 16 Apr 20263:23 pmCall for service14 mindb5d5552
Thu 16 Apr 20267:08 pmPatrol support8 min840c6291
Thu 16 Apr 20269:02 pmDrone as first responder10 mind3015531
Thu 16 Apr 20269:15 pmCall for service9 min0522bcdf
Thu 16 Apr 20269:45 pmCall for service7 minc07b0334
Thu 16 Apr 202610:09 pmPatrol support18 minb3bafc9b
Fri 17 Apr 202610:45 amCall for service14 min8ae9849c
Fri 17 Apr 202611:00 amNot stated6 minf54eb8c0
Fri 17 Apr 202611:27 amNot stated7 min0a528628
Fri 17 Apr 20261:45 pmNot stated5 min9c91ffef
Fri 17 Apr 20263:16 pmCall for service10 min1916c867
Thu 23 Apr 20265:55 pmNot stated7 min33f2c1c7
Thu 23 Apr 20266:23 pmNot stated18 minc4035aba
Thu 23 Apr 20267:42 pmNot stated7 min9c94efa4
Fri 24 Apr 20267:56 pmCall for service13 min4dd85f8c
Tue 28 Apr 202611:34 pmDrone as first responder16 mina626dfd2
Wed 29 Apr 202610:54 amDrone as first responder10 min42ee5b00

All 37 flights in April 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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