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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower Northeast, August 2026

A planning area page. 66 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

66

drone flights crossed Lower Northeast.

66

of them in August 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower Northeast 66 times between 5 August 2026 and 29 August 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 August 2026.

66 of the 66 drawable flights that crossed the area in August 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

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

6% 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 66 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service79%
  2. Other11%
  3. Drone as first responder6%
  4. Traffic and crashes3%
  5. Not stated2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 5 Aug 20266:34 pmCall for service12 minefcc9e82
Thu 6 Aug 202610:41 amCall for service17 mina1f251dc
Tue 11 Aug 20264:53 pmCall for service9 min68510568
Tue 11 Aug 20266:07 pmCall for service13 min525ba768
Tue 11 Aug 20267:00 pmTraffic and crashes12 minb122126b
Wed 12 Aug 202610:23 amOther15 mine7b6c2ae
Wed 12 Aug 202610:47 amCall for service9 minf7fb06d1
Wed 12 Aug 202612:27 pmCall for service11 min6dc418f1
Wed 12 Aug 20265:41 pmCall for service17 min35427ea6
Wed 12 Aug 20265:55 pmCall for service8 min99ec474a
Wed 12 Aug 20266:50 pmCall for service8 min5f26a9d2
Wed 12 Aug 20266:59 pmCall for service7 min066b3ae2
Wed 12 Aug 20267:43 pmCall for service10 minffb60d9a
Thu 13 Aug 20261:43 pmCall for service17 min99dc471f
Thu 13 Aug 20261:58 pmCall for service7 min5733965e
Thu 13 Aug 20263:50 pmCall for service6 min64957032
Thu 13 Aug 20264:04 pmCall for service10 min61f647f4
Thu 13 Aug 20265:45 pmCall for service10 minee12592c
Thu 13 Aug 20266:59 pmCall for service17 min300c61df
Thu 13 Aug 20267:11 pmCall for service17 min2fe91973
Thu 13 Aug 20268:55 pmCall for service11 min9975f873
Thu 13 Aug 202610:05 pmCall for service13 min24f51f51
Fri 14 Aug 20263:28 pmCall for service12 min2e3c4dad
Fri 14 Aug 20264:25 pmOther16 min5b166581
Fri 14 Aug 20264:35 pmOther15 min5d46dca7
Fri 14 Aug 20266:52 pmCall for service8 minfd2a4ff3
Sat 15 Aug 20266:29 pmCall for service12 min9215ece8
Wed 19 Aug 20266:13 pmCall for service13 minabb964a2
Wed 19 Aug 20266:41 pmOther7 mine1427d91
Thu 20 Aug 202610:56 amTraffic and crashes11 min87389ad7
Fri 21 Aug 202610:25 amOther10 min1bcd9dd8
Fri 21 Aug 20266:46 pmCall for service3 min1ea08665
Fri 21 Aug 20267:15 pmCall for service4 minc00df99e
Fri 21 Aug 20269:07 pmCall for service10 min8f2f14ca
Sat 22 Aug 20261:38 pmCall for service13 minb3749a1c
Sat 22 Aug 20267:41 pmCall for service11 mind4fb6693
Sat 22 Aug 20267:56 pmCall for service6 mind72d9b77
Sat 22 Aug 20269:35 pmCall for service12 min54d7c685
Sat 22 Aug 202610:10 pmOther7 min65a03ca8
Tue 25 Aug 20263:59 pmCall for service16 min04bc7d71
Tue 25 Aug 20269:44 pmCall for service11 min0d18b73d
Tue 25 Aug 202610:44 pmCall for service17 min85c37471
Wed 26 Aug 202610:52 amCall for service14 min943e7c58
Wed 26 Aug 202611:18 amCall for service19 min560db9a0
Wed 26 Aug 202611:41 amCall for service11 minc2e550f0
Wed 26 Aug 20264:51 pmCall for service8 min72c447f8
Wed 26 Aug 20265:32 pmCall for service13 min9c6229a0
Wed 26 Aug 20268:00 pmCall for service16 min332a0dae
Wed 26 Aug 20268:50 pmCall for service5 min2c81526b
Thu 27 Aug 202610:37 pmCall for service19 min9a91d528
Fri 28 Aug 202611:06 amDrone as first responder10 minec92d44a
Fri 28 Aug 202612:18 pmDrone as first responder13 min37198bed
Fri 28 Aug 202612:39 pmNot stated14 min1b288523
Fri 28 Aug 20263:35 pmCall for service10 min6539cc87
Fri 28 Aug 20265:27 pmCall for service12 min027606af
Fri 28 Aug 20266:17 pmCall for service14 min1486892c
Fri 28 Aug 20266:54 pmCall for service12 min265a06b9
Fri 28 Aug 20267:06 pmCall for service14 min65a9daf7
Fri 28 Aug 20267:14 pmCall for service11 minf6a515e6
Fri 28 Aug 20267:52 pmCall for service18 min146e16e3
Fri 28 Aug 20268:51 pmCall for service13 min9762d43d
Sat 29 Aug 202611:05 amDrone as first responder15 min0f52fe4e
Sat 29 Aug 202612:59 pmDrone as first responder17 min412c23e6
Sat 29 Aug 20261:55 pmCall for service16 min1f827174
Sat 29 Aug 20262:21 pmCall for service8 min96f48144
Sat 29 Aug 20267:25 pmOther13 mind88caa91

All 66 flights in August 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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