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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower Northwest, August 2026

A planning area page. 32 of the 3,951 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

32

drone flights crossed Lower Northwest.

32

of them in August 2026.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower Northwest 32 times between 7 August 2026 and 30 August 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 August 2026.

32 of the 32 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 NorthwestOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

3% 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 32 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Events47%
  2. Call for service28%
  3. Patrol support9%
  4. Other6%
  5. Training and testing3%
  6. Drone as first responder3%
  7. Not stated3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 7 Aug 20261:50 pmCall for service12 min16651568
Wed 12 Aug 20265:45 pmCall for service11 min08a1f11c
Wed 12 Aug 20266:49 pmCall for service13 minfad18263
Wed 12 Aug 20267:10 pmTraining and testing42 s865afc5e
Wed 12 Aug 20268:37 pmPatrol support15 mine8e08234
Wed 12 Aug 20269:23 pmPatrol support15 min3138b82d
Wed 12 Aug 202610:44 pmCall for service12 min48021d89
Thu 13 Aug 20263:36 pmCall for service8 mine11c0f7d
Tue 18 Aug 20263:15 pmOther9 mincba36248
Wed 19 Aug 20261:13 pmCall for service9 min3d81c3ec
Tue 25 Aug 20261:43 pmPatrol support15 min4923f360
Tue 25 Aug 20266:24 pmOther7 mine7503379
Fri 28 Aug 20262:17 pmCall for service8 min00d0e2fd
Sat 29 Aug 202612:00 pmDrone as first responder13 minea126728
Sat 29 Aug 20268:11 pmCall for service4 min2bf04bb5
Sat 29 Aug 20269:05 pmCall for service12 min3a3d9bdf
Sun 30 Aug 20266:38 amEvents18 min9c1bea5e
Sun 30 Aug 20267:09 amEvents19 min46af5b4e
Sun 30 Aug 20268:03 amEvents18 min68470171
Sun 30 Aug 20268:43 amEvents21 mina870669c
Sun 30 Aug 20269:14 amEvents22 min2eee6071
Sun 30 Aug 20269:49 amNot stated23 min74c96260
Sun 30 Aug 202610:36 amEvents20 mina8630719
Sun 30 Aug 202611:14 amEvents21 mina6b80cf3
Sun 30 Aug 202612:19 pmEvents19 mindd0d5c39
Sun 30 Aug 202612:46 pmEvents18 min348f810b
Sun 30 Aug 20261:19 pmEvents15 min7f0d6e7c
Sun 30 Aug 20261:47 pmEvents21 min69ddd9c8
Sun 30 Aug 20262:21 pmEvents21 mine2aa822e
Sun 30 Aug 20262:52 pmEvents18 mindefbf09a
Sun 30 Aug 20263:23 pmEvents16 min861dd7b2
Sun 30 Aug 20263:54 pmEvents17 minb23074fa

All 32 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 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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