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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower South, October 2025

A planning area page. 9 of the 3,951 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in October 2025.

9

drone flights crossed Lower South.

9

of them in October 2025.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower South 9 times between 3 October 2025 and 5 October 2025, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 5 October 2025.

9 of the 9 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 2025. 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 SouthOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

33% 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 9 flights that crossed this area.

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Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2025

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 3 Oct 20256:30 pmEvents20 min6174a3d9
Fri 3 Oct 20258:01 pmEvents16 min76c2ee57
Fri 3 Oct 20259:43 pmEvents16 mineee7b12a
Fri 3 Oct 202510:32 pmEvents16 minda3f1362
Fri 3 Oct 202511:01 pmEvents17 minc9036eed
Fri 3 Oct 202511:31 pmEvents15 minca1b6673
Sun 5 Oct 202511:34 amEvents3 min30b37b99
Sun 5 Oct 202511:39 amEvents22 min29b50eb4
Sun 5 Oct 202512:24 pmEvents22 min136f9ecf

All 9 flights in October 2025. 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 South" 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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