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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower Northeast, September 2026

A planning area page. 79 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

79

drone flights crossed Lower Northeast.

79

of them in September 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower Northeast 79 times between 1 September 2026 and 30 September 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 September 2026.

79 of the 79 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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

15 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 79 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service78%
  2. Patrol support8%
  3. Search6%
  4. Other5%
  5. Traffic and crashes3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 1 Sep 20266:08 amOther17 min8f9d2ac7
Tue 1 Sep 202610:20 amCall for service14 mindbc0626c
Tue 1 Sep 202612:18 pmCall for service16 min89eea3a7
Tue 1 Sep 20264:17 pmCall for service8 minf43fc755
Tue 1 Sep 20265:44 pmCall for service16 minec1cfe7d
Wed 2 Sep 20261:12 pmOther14 min20f30f23
Wed 2 Sep 20269:35 pmCall for service17 min9d445b60
Wed 2 Sep 202610:19 pmCall for service15 mina21c092e
Thu 3 Sep 202611:46 amCall for service11 min00b5fd9f
Thu 3 Sep 20265:46 pmCall for service18 min5ef7917f
Thu 3 Sep 20268:31 pmCall for service10 minbb143ff5
Thu 3 Sep 20269:06 pmCall for service19 min688a49ab
Thu 3 Sep 202610:05 pmCall for service14 min8a1c7717
Thu 3 Sep 202611:12 pmCall for service9 min1dd0db4a
Fri 4 Sep 20261:03 pmCall for service8 minab3810dd
Fri 4 Sep 20264:14 pmPatrol support5 minba6c76ec
Fri 4 Sep 20265:06 pmCall for service14 minc3334da8
Fri 4 Sep 20265:35 pmCall for service8 min2d5624cf
Sat 5 Sep 202610:12 amCall for service4 minbde84835
Sat 5 Sep 202612:05 pmCall for service11 min6ffacd05
Sat 5 Sep 20265:20 pmCall for service18 minf3c0a649
Sat 5 Sep 20267:30 pmCall for service14 min70eac0db
Tue 15 Sep 202610:07 amCall for service15 min1dfe52f9
Tue 15 Sep 202611:14 amCall for service12 min7ed875c7
Tue 15 Sep 20261:12 pmCall for service7 min5d912969
Tue 15 Sep 20266:23 pmCall for service7 minaf189d85
Tue 15 Sep 20266:41 pmCall for service8 min235eb6d0
Tue 15 Sep 20267:16 pmCall for service11 min146ef8a1
Tue 15 Sep 20268:24 pmCall for service7 min60049503
Tue 15 Sep 202611:17 pmCall for service12 min33560479
Wed 16 Sep 202612:46 pmCall for service8 min18990dc4
Wed 16 Sep 20261:29 pmCall for service12 min7255c089
Wed 16 Sep 20264:13 pmSearch12 minf18c1d00
Wed 16 Sep 20264:24 pmSearch13 min846689ae
Wed 16 Sep 20264:42 pmSearch10 min4ef46d0a
Wed 16 Sep 20264:59 pmSearch8 min981a2142
Wed 16 Sep 20265:55 pmTraffic and crashes7 minc7fbc2c8
Wed 16 Sep 20266:15 pmSearch9 min93fb38f1
Wed 16 Sep 20268:24 pmTraffic and crashes9 min18b22d3c
Thu 17 Sep 202610:36 amCall for service15 minb5491e1a
Thu 17 Sep 202611:12 amCall for service12 min0b491b0c
Fri 18 Sep 20262:21 pmCall for service6 min1410007e
Fri 18 Sep 20262:30 pmCall for service13 minab3b61f8
Fri 18 Sep 20263:26 pmPatrol support12 min83e9dded
Fri 18 Sep 20263:45 pmCall for service6 min3d9b9629
Fri 18 Sep 20267:40 pmCall for service5 minf8ee4c5c
Fri 18 Sep 20269:07 pmCall for service12 min44bed50a
Fri 18 Sep 20269:37 pmCall for service12 minf4f24239
Fri 18 Sep 202610:29 pmCall for service7 min2fdd98fd
Sat 19 Sep 202611:46 amCall for service11 min0ab957e4
Sat 19 Sep 20261:01 pmCall for service17 min0025b331
Sat 19 Sep 20262:37 pmCall for service19 minaa4cb13d
Sat 19 Sep 20266:06 pmCall for service12 mine19e0773
Sat 19 Sep 20266:08 pmCall for service12 mind2352529
Sat 19 Sep 20267:13 pmCall for service13 min41273fb4
Sat 19 Sep 20269:45 pmCall for service10 min9a7351bf
Tue 22 Sep 202611:45 amCall for service7 min30d9da5e
Tue 22 Sep 20261:46 pmCall for service14 min6e6047f2
Tue 22 Sep 20263:08 pmCall for service6 min96b538b9
Tue 22 Sep 20263:23 pmCall for service10 min0a9db09b
Wed 23 Sep 20262:58 pmCall for service9 min9413b0d8
Wed 23 Sep 20263:27 pmPatrol support14 min3fb0f7b1
Wed 23 Sep 20263:36 pmPatrol support15 min7f3969d4
Wed 23 Sep 20265:35 pmCall for service10 min108396cb
Wed 23 Sep 20266:02 pmCall for service10 minc2af505f
Wed 23 Sep 20269:46 pmCall for service6 mina1b62e60
Thu 24 Sep 202610:18 amCall for service11 min7a034c3b
Thu 24 Sep 20262:39 pmCall for service13 minb87fbb24
Thu 24 Sep 20263:54 pmCall for service15 mina678bbde
Thu 24 Sep 20267:01 pmPatrol support3 minab697049
Thu 24 Sep 20269:40 pmOther8 mind7dd8c60
Thu 24 Sep 20269:46 pmCall for service9 minac0a7ff5
Fri 25 Sep 202611:45 amOther7 mina6c442bd
Fri 25 Sep 202612:45 pmCall for service11 min14fed5fe
Fri 25 Sep 20262:50 pmCall for service17 min6ba23cdc
Fri 25 Sep 20264:43 pmPatrol support11 minff7af6a7
Tue 29 Sep 202610:32 amCall for service13 min0c50cc97
Tue 29 Sep 20269:43 pmCall for service10 min41b4a0ec
Wed 30 Sep 20268:15 pmCall for service15 mine6361296

All 79 flights in September 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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