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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower Northeast, July 2026

A planning area page. 31 of the 3,951 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in July 2026.

31

drone flights crossed Lower Northeast.

31

of them in July 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower Northeast 31 times between 2 July 2026 and 30 July 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 July 2026.

31 of the 31 drawable flights that crossed the area in July 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.

13% 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 31 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service71%
  2. Patrol support13%
  3. Other10%
  4. Drone as first responder6%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, July 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 2 Jul 20261:55 pmDrone as first responder8 minebddf0b4
Fri 3 Jul 202611:48 amCall for service4 min81c500e3
Thu 9 Jul 20268:24 pmCall for service7 min74a19813
Fri 10 Jul 20267:37 pmCall for service11 min5da86005
Fri 10 Jul 202610:20 pmCall for service10 min4341a3b3
Wed 15 Jul 20262:28 pmCall for service10 mina37f2b77
Thu 16 Jul 202611:47 amCall for service9 minbfc16a42
Thu 16 Jul 202612:59 pmCall for service8 min71bb2f2f
Thu 16 Jul 20261:25 pmOther16 min631a1fe6
Thu 16 Jul 20261:57 pmCall for service10 mincc3c38a9
Fri 17 Jul 202611:50 amCall for service9 mincb304cd5
Fri 17 Jul 20262:05 pmCall for service9 min131d2b2a
Sat 18 Jul 202612:09 pmPatrol support5 minaad4f02c
Sat 18 Jul 20261:08 pmCall for service15 min077d80fb
Tue 21 Jul 20268:21 pmOther10 min3938aec9
Tue 21 Jul 202610:15 pmCall for service15 mine8d17d98
Sat 25 Jul 20266:11 pmOther16 minbc620427
Sat 25 Jul 20266:45 pmDrone as first responder10 min3593bb45
Sat 25 Jul 20267:19 pmCall for service14 min545dfe6e
Sat 25 Jul 20268:31 pmCall for service15 min18faabc5
Sat 25 Jul 20268:42 pmCall for service11 min58f216aa
Sat 25 Jul 20268:50 pmCall for service15 minb0effd22
Sat 25 Jul 20269:02 pmCall for service15 mindee90bb2
Sat 25 Jul 20269:21 pmCall for service10 mind362dbd3
Sat 25 Jul 20269:28 pmCall for service15 mina2982f73
Sat 25 Jul 20269:40 pmCall for service15 min47275f94
Sat 25 Jul 20269:51 pmCall for service15 min9bd46bcc
Sat 25 Jul 202610:14 pmPatrol support17 min6f7ce91e
Sat 25 Jul 202610:40 pmPatrol support10 minb6c3c02a
Tue 28 Jul 20265:36 pmCall for service13 minc0ffd31f
Thu 30 Jul 20265:35 pmPatrol support9 mincc2a511b

All 31 flights in July 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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