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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lower South, October 2026

A planning area page. 21 of the 3,976 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in October 2026.

21

drone flights crossed Lower South.

21

of them in October 2026.

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lower South 21 times between 4 October 2026 and 27 October 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 27 October 2026.

21 of the 21 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 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.

19% 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 21 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 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sun 4 Oct 202611:51 amEvents16 min5895f4ca
Sun 4 Oct 20263:33 pmEvents16 min24be6aa2
Sun 4 Oct 20264:42 pmEvents20 min08b207e7
Sun 4 Oct 20265:17 pmEvents18 minc4fed20f
Sun 4 Oct 20265:42 pmEvents6 mind7a4ef53
Sun 18 Oct 202612:31 pmEvents23 minec917d50
Sun 18 Oct 20264:05 pmEvents18 mind28528c0
Sun 18 Oct 20264:47 pmEvents20 min04b679b3
Mon 26 Oct 20263:47 pmEvents18 min747ce1b0
Mon 26 Oct 20264:18 pmEvents19 min22e14fb9
Mon 26 Oct 20265:02 pmEvents18 min5887dd95
Mon 26 Oct 20265:45 pmEvents20 min71428210
Mon 26 Oct 20266:30 pmEvents21 min640fb346
Mon 26 Oct 20267:20 pmEvents20 min39c317bb
Mon 26 Oct 20267:44 pmEvents17 min5d3d97c4
Mon 26 Oct 20268:04 pmEvents19 min2a8f7e58
Mon 26 Oct 20269:51 pmEvents11 minee8c4f0f
Mon 26 Oct 202611:07 pmEvents16 min13bb9f17
Mon 26 Oct 202611:26 pmEvents18 min416c04ed
Mon 26 Oct 202611:47 pmEvents19 min98df02d9
Tue 27 Oct 202612:07 amEvents17 min6585bccb

All 21 flights in October 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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