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Lower Northwest

A planning area page. 123 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area.

123

drone flights crossed Lower Northwest.

7

of them in October 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower Northwest 123 times between 23 November 2025 and 28 October 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 October 2026.

7 of the 7 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 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 NorthwestOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

25 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.

Month by month

Flights that crossed Lower Northwest, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. Nov 2025: 13 flights. 13
  2. Dec 2025: 0 flights. 0
  3. Jan 2026: 0 flights. 0
  4. Feb 2026: 0 flights. 0
  5. Mar 2026: 0 flights. 0
  6. Apr 2026: 3 flights. 3
  7. May 2026: 0 flights. 0
  8. Jun 2026: 18 flights. 18
  9. Jul 2026: 11 flights. 11
  10. Aug 2026: 32 flights. 32
  11. Sep 2026: 39 flights. 39
  12. Oct 2026: 7 flights. 7
Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The hatched bar is the current month, still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 123 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service39%
  2. Events23%
  3. Training and testing15%
  4. Patrol support9%
  5. Other7%
  6. Drone as first responder6%
  7. Not stated2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 202612:43 pmCall for service8 minda552690
Thu 1 Oct 20263:57 pmCall for service9 min3dcd77a5
Thu 1 Oct 202610:30 pmCall for service14 min54170e23
Fri 2 Oct 20262:45 pmCall for service8 min8dc89d72
Fri 2 Oct 20263:36 pmCall for service16 min0799f08b
Sat 17 Oct 20268:27 pmPatrol support14 min0c7c5ac8
Wed 28 Oct 20268:55 pmCall for service8 min31d88dff

All 7 flights in October 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 Northwest" 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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