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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower Northeast, May 2026

A planning area page. 51 of the 3,951 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

51

drone flights crossed Lower Northeast.

51

of them in May 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower Northeast 51 times between 1 May 2026 and 29 May 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 May 2026.

51 of the 51 drawable flights that crossed the area in May 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

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

8% 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 51 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service49%
  2. Not stated25%
  3. Drone as first responder14%
  4. Other8%
  5. Training and testing4%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, May 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 1 May 20269:01 amCall for service9 min79a14de8
Fri 1 May 20269:35 amNot stated10 min556422ae
Fri 1 May 202610:05 amOther7 min110971fc
Fri 1 May 202610:17 amOther7 min05443e95
Fri 1 May 202610:27 amNot stated8 minf0d81f79
Tue 5 May 202610:11 pmOther11 min341dc4cf
Thu 7 May 20264:29 pmTraining and testing7 min9a738a56
Thu 7 May 20265:33 pmCall for service16 mind391721e
Thu 7 May 20266:25 pmNot stated5 minf57ab350
Thu 7 May 20267:02 pmCall for service10 min9d535c8c
Thu 7 May 20267:27 pmCall for service11 min14bae542
Thu 7 May 20267:55 pmTraining and testing6 min3e2100de
Thu 7 May 20267:55 pmNot stated9 minb3d59530
Thu 7 May 20268:42 pmCall for service11 minf2e069e4
Fri 8 May 20265:43 pmDrone as first responder10 min833cf9f2
Fri 8 May 20266:20 pmOther13 min3da0b258
Fri 8 May 20267:18 pmDrone as first responder15 minb75775f4
Fri 8 May 20268:01 pmNot stated4 min29e98c15
Fri 8 May 20269:21 pmNot stated16 min53d3eea4
Fri 8 May 202610:00 pmCall for service8 mind6273ddc
Tue 12 May 202611:25 amNot stated8 minbaccb4fd
Tue 12 May 202611:38 amCall for service16 mind64e3d2d
Tue 12 May 202612:02 pmCall for service4 min74d2a717
Tue 12 May 20261:29 pmCall for service12 min5fac039c
Tue 12 May 20263:26 pmCall for service17 min526b8d01
Wed 13 May 202612:25 pmDrone as first responder9 min4acd021c
Thu 14 May 202610:49 amCall for service11 min0eec100b
Thu 14 May 202611:10 amCall for service9 min0af36a2e
Fri 15 May 202612:14 pmNot stated9 min2d9a661c
Fri 15 May 20261:37 pmCall for service10 min8ad38373
Fri 15 May 20262:18 pmNot stated17 mind7948f66
Tue 19 May 202612:09 pmCall for service7 minabde8d47
Wed 20 May 202610:37 amCall for service6 minb974d863
Wed 20 May 20263:19 pmCall for service10 minacc9bf8e
Thu 21 May 202611:44 amCall for service10 min3b33731f
Fri 22 May 20263:34 pmCall for service7 minb6df021e
Fri 22 May 202610:39 pmNot stated9 mind38e030e
Sat 23 May 202611:23 amCall for service6 min13625205
Sat 23 May 20262:04 pmDrone as first responder10 min4e3354f7
Tue 26 May 202610:38 amNot stated5 min28f8c242
Tue 26 May 202610:45 amNot stated11 min1ab77fcb
Tue 26 May 202611:20 amNot stated7 minc1098781
Tue 26 May 20261:42 pmDrone as first responder5 min77f0e5a8
Tue 26 May 20262:31 pmCall for service10 min7c1eaf9a
Tue 26 May 20263:17 pmCall for service9 min5ac2bb9b
Tue 26 May 20266:15 pmCall for service12 minc53f62fd
Tue 26 May 20266:23 pmDrone as first responder12 min03379e28
Thu 28 May 202610:36 amDrone as first responder13 min6ed39bc1
Thu 28 May 202610:03 pmCall for service8 min9fe3952c
Fri 29 May 20267:08 pmCall for service13 minb2fb62e0
Fri 29 May 20269:18 pmCall for service12 min717a451f

All 51 flights in May 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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