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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower South, January 2026

A planning area page. 8 of the 3,951 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in January 2026.

8

drone flights crossed Lower South.

8

of them in January 2026.

21 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower South 8 times between 11 January 2026 and 22 January 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 22 January 2026.

8 of the 8 drawable flights that crossed the area in January 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 SouthOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

0% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (EST).

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 8 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Events25%
  2. Call for service25%
  3. Not stated25%
  4. Other25%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, January 2026

DateTakeoff (EST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sun 11 Jan 20263:31 pmEvents13 min2b443d3d
Sun 11 Jan 20264:15 pmEvents11 min723ca3e1
Wed 21 Jan 202610:37 amCall for service21 min5b616798
Wed 21 Jan 202610:38 amNot stated24 min85059cf8
Wed 21 Jan 202611:00 amCall for service23 min22624cf3
Wed 21 Jan 202611:03 amNot stated21 min2a1ce34f
Thu 22 Jan 202610:34 amOther19 min4961b2fd
Thu 22 Jan 202611:42 amOther22 min48af466d

All 8 flights in January 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 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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