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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower Northeast, June 2026

A planning area page. 44 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in June 2026.

44

drone flights crossed Lower Northeast.

44

of them in June 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower Northeast 44 times between 3 June 2026 and 30 June 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 June 2026.

44 of the 44 drawable flights that crossed the area in June 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.

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 44 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Drone as first responder36%
  2. Call for service34%
  3. Not stated25%
  4. Training and testing2%
  5. Other2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, June 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 3 Jun 202611:30 amCall for service13 min090fdd01
Wed 3 Jun 20266:00 pmDrone as first responder8 min56bcbea2
Wed 3 Jun 20266:20 pmDrone as first responder14 minde707a3c
Wed 3 Jun 20267:21 pmDrone as first responder10 minf0ff40fb
Wed 3 Jun 202611:18 pmDrone as first responder17 min627173b2
Thu 4 Jun 202610:47 amDrone as first responder19 min39840164
Thu 4 Jun 202611:08 amDrone as first responder17 minc7bfd1ec
Thu 4 Jun 20269:19 pmNot stated14 min100773c8
Thu 4 Jun 20269:31 pmNot stated8 minb4fa7858
Fri 5 Jun 20267:22 pmNot stated7 min09abbb29
Fri 5 Jun 20268:39 pmCall for service11 min2118b6b1
Wed 10 Jun 202611:54 amCall for service11 min48cc7ed7
Wed 10 Jun 202612:14 pmNot stated11 min62df7cda
Thu 11 Jun 202612:59 pmTraining and testing5 min05d6919e
Sat 13 Jun 202612:43 pmDrone as first responder12 minefdbdf32
Sat 13 Jun 20265:29 pmDrone as first responder18 min7daab6ce
Sat 13 Jun 20266:03 pmDrone as first responder16 min6388ed3c
Sat 13 Jun 20268:25 pmCall for service12 min7efa61b9
Wed 17 Jun 202610:06 pmCall for service8 min675d03f6
Fri 19 Jun 20264:15 pmDrone as first responder12 min1d5aff1e
Fri 19 Jun 20264:57 pmDrone as first responder9 minf0d80a33
Wed 24 Jun 20261:20 pmCall for service12 min0ca6e3f9
Wed 24 Jun 20261:50 pmNot stated15 min1e5d695e
Wed 24 Jun 20262:11 pmNot stated10 min96fac045
Wed 24 Jun 20262:52 pmNot stated13 min8a12b4c9
Wed 24 Jun 20263:34 pmNot stated16 min31563b4d
Wed 24 Jun 20264:20 pmNot stated8 min400c73f6
Wed 24 Jun 20267:04 pmCall for service13 min7cb8e010
Wed 24 Jun 20268:18 pmCall for service14 minafbf939f
Thu 25 Jun 202610:35 amDrone as first responder6 min3be38983
Thu 25 Jun 202612:32 pmDrone as first responder7 min80342c9b
Thu 25 Jun 20263:23 pmDrone as first responder12 min3efa661e
Thu 25 Jun 20263:42 pmCall for service17 min82cafe2c
Thu 25 Jun 20264:36 pmCall for service9 min2d19630e
Thu 25 Jun 20264:53 pmNot stated8 min246c255f
Thu 25 Jun 20268:10 pmCall for service10 min6cdc0f12
Fri 26 Jun 20261:00 pmDrone as first responder8 min49f62451
Fri 26 Jun 20263:55 pmCall for service7 min420c6064
Sat 27 Jun 202611:15 amCall for service14 minc1707e8b
Sat 27 Jun 202611:44 amNot stated13 minf58ae561
Sat 27 Jun 20263:09 pmOther12 mine89aa5b4
Sat 27 Jun 20268:09 pmCall for service14 min181e19ac
Tue 30 Jun 20261:20 pmCall for service10 min878516e1
Tue 30 Jun 20267:43 pmDrone as first responder10 min21bbd499

All 44 flights in June 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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