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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower South, September 2026

A planning area page. 50 of the 3,951 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

50

drone flights crossed Lower South.

50

of them in September 2026.

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower South 50 times between 2 September 2026 and 19 September 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 19 September 2026.

50 of the 50 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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

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

4% 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 50 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Events98%
  2. Not stated2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 2 Sep 20265:36 pmEvents18 min28142e40
Wed 2 Sep 20265:59 pmEvents20 min38c80268
Wed 2 Sep 20266:21 pmEvents19 mineb36c58b
Wed 2 Sep 20266:43 pmEvents19 minb2db0880
Wed 2 Sep 20267:04 pmEvents20 min29265495
Wed 2 Sep 20267:28 pmEvents20 min3003b0d5
Wed 2 Sep 20267:50 pmEvents7 minf602feaf
Wed 2 Sep 20268:07 pmEvents11 minbff73f1f
Wed 2 Sep 20268:19 pmEvents20 min4bfee19e
Wed 2 Sep 20269:14 pmEvents6 min807160d0
Wed 2 Sep 202610:58 pmEvents20 mindd230d1d
Wed 2 Sep 202611:19 pmEvents13 minbbde6bb9
Sat 12 Sep 20269:27 amNot stated20 mindf746389
Sat 12 Sep 202610:33 amEvents18 minf045d447
Sat 12 Sep 202611:15 amEvents22 min089f30d9
Sat 12 Sep 202611:39 amEvents22 min4bc4b823
Sat 12 Sep 20263:37 pmEvents20 min7293e811
Sat 12 Sep 20264:01 pmEvents18 min40bad02d
Sun 13 Sep 202611:40 amEvents17 min6bdc5e97
Sun 13 Sep 202612:03 pmEvents16 minaed4ea6d
Sun 13 Sep 202612:32 pmEvents15 mine4d0ee98
Sun 13 Sep 20261:10 pmEvents19 min6d8940f7
Sun 13 Sep 20261:48 pmEvents17 mina0287fbb
Sun 13 Sep 20261:59 pmEvents2 min97eacc04
Sun 13 Sep 20262:14 pmEvents15 min3d5bc612
Sun 13 Sep 20262:32 pmEvents15 min8fbce5b7
Sun 13 Sep 20262:49 pmEvents21 min0bc89073
Sun 13 Sep 20263:12 pmEvents21 mindf640d42
Sun 13 Sep 20263:30 pmEvents18 minc610d6b2
Sun 13 Sep 20263:58 pmEvents14 minf49917c6
Sun 13 Sep 20264:13 pmEvents21 min3a2946c6
Sun 13 Sep 20265:09 pmEvents21 minf819b70a
Sun 13 Sep 20266:55 pmEvents19 min56074dfe
Sun 13 Sep 20267:14 pmEvents11 min9de2de15
Sun 13 Sep 20267:24 pmEvents16 min4d81adcf
Sun 13 Sep 20267:34 pmEvents19 mine16066c0
Sun 13 Sep 20267:41 pmEvents16 min7dae4145
Sun 13 Sep 20268:13 pmEvents13 min482a4d9d
Sun 13 Sep 20268:29 pmEvents19 min6b370895
Sun 13 Sep 20268:49 pmEvents12 min264eeb03
Sat 19 Sep 202612:22 pmEvents21 min60fc2969
Sat 19 Sep 20261:16 pmEvents19 minf40ba445
Sat 19 Sep 20261:45 pmEvents24 min712c178d
Sat 19 Sep 20262:12 pmEvents21 min9759e41e
Sat 19 Sep 20262:38 pmEvents6 min9b839781
Sat 19 Sep 20262:53 pmEvents16 minfa7cf2c4
Sat 19 Sep 20263:16 pmEvents39 sfbe8c070
Sat 19 Sep 20263:45 pmEvents13 minf2693671
Sat 19 Sep 20264:53 pmEvents18 min30b0b24a
Sat 19 Sep 20265:23 pmEvents20 min62bd56cb

All 50 flights in September 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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