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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower South, July 2026

A planning area page. 9 of the 3,951 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in July 2026.

9

drone flights crossed Lower South.

9

of them in July 2026.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower South 9 times between 17 July 2026 and 31 July 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 July 2026.

9 of the 9 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 SouthOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

67% 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, July 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 17 Jul 20266:37 pmEvents21 min11707f18
Fri 17 Jul 20269:44 pmEvents19 mina02cd5e8
Fri 17 Jul 202610:37 pmEvents17 minc75173e9
Fri 17 Jul 202610:56 pmEvents15 mina7722209
Fri 17 Jul 202611:12 pmEvents16 min3dcc4967
Fri 17 Jul 202611:31 pmEvents18 minc08e3bb9
Fri 31 Jul 20266:57 pmEvents17 min7fb2f7c0
Fri 31 Jul 202611:44 pmEvents2 min7b279b25
Fri 31 Jul 202611:48 pmEvents13 min12be70f0

All 9 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 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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