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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower Northwest, July 2026

A planning area page. 11 of the 3,951 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in July 2026.

11

drone flights crossed Lower Northwest.

11

of them in July 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower Northwest 11 times between 4 July 2026 and 29 July 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 July 2026.

11 of the 11 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 NorthwestOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

9% 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 11 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service45%
  2. Training and testing27%
  3. Drone as first responder9%
  4. Other9%
  5. Patrol support9%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, July 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sat 4 Jul 20261:40 pmDrone as first responder12 min9ef8c617
Sat 4 Jul 20262:39 pmCall for service9 min68ebe86a
Sat 4 Jul 20268:57 pmTraining and testing1 min 09 scb6c8c91
Fri 17 Jul 202610:28 amCall for service11 min3b295d56
Fri 17 Jul 202612:27 pmOther11 min25be4a58
Fri 17 Jul 20261:28 pmCall for service6 minab2b95d5
Wed 22 Jul 20268:25 pmTraining and testing1 min 33 s25ae8a2f
Wed 22 Jul 20269:29 pmTraining and testing16 min7b8c68c9
Thu 23 Jul 202610:28 pmPatrol support11 mina636e4dc
Wed 29 Jul 202612:11 pmCall for service17 min54931363
Wed 29 Jul 202612:32 pmCall for service17 min1f8bc924

All 11 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 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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