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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower South, August 2026

A planning area page. 23 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

23

drone flights crossed Lower South.

23

of them in August 2026.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower South 23 times between 1 August 2026 and 28 August 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 August 2026.

23 of the 23 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 SouthOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

52% 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 23 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Events96%
  2. Not stated4%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sat 1 Aug 202612:18 amEvents16 mine75272d4
Thu 13 Aug 20268:00 pmEvents15 minef1f4005
Thu 13 Aug 20268:20 pmEvents12 min76f21a67
Thu 13 Aug 20268:39 pmEvents18 min1c9bde3a
Thu 13 Aug 20269:24 pmNot stated14 min741e0e53
Thu 13 Aug 20269:51 pmEvents12 mind9ddfb9a
Thu 13 Aug 202610:11 pmEvents18 minc0f74bc3
Thu 13 Aug 202610:37 pmEvents15 minf113f19b
Thu 13 Aug 202610:55 pmEvents21 minef8e2030
Thu 13 Aug 202611:18 pmEvents14 min13b8a620
Thu 13 Aug 202611:42 pmEvents8 mincfc9cd8a
Tue 25 Aug 20268:06 pmEvents15 min65bae6b9
Fri 28 Aug 20266:59 pmEvents20 minc2e44198
Fri 28 Aug 20267:24 pmEvents17 mindbe3d49d
Fri 28 Aug 20267:56 pmEvents17 minbe7ca149
Fri 28 Aug 20268:28 pmEvents15 mind72b8255
Fri 28 Aug 20268:47 pmEvents18 min37835698
Fri 28 Aug 202610:03 pmEvents14 min2a55088a
Fri 28 Aug 202610:20 pmEvents17 min4808a1cf
Fri 28 Aug 202610:38 pmEvents15 min53c31718
Fri 28 Aug 202610:56 pmEvents17 min12400428
Fri 28 Aug 202611:18 pmEvents18 min1dbc0270
Fri 28 Aug 202611:37 pmEvents5 min8d2afda2

All 23 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 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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