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North Delaware

A planning area page. 781 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area.

781

drone flights crossed North Delaware.

56

of them in October 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed North Delaware 781 times between 27 September 2025 and 28 October 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 October 2026.

56 of the 56 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.
North DelawareOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

8% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (EDT).

1 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.

Month by month

Flights that crossed North Delaware, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. Sep 2025: 4 flights. 4
  2. Oct 2025: 29 flights. 29
  3. Nov 2025: 15 flights. 15
  4. Dec 2025: 21 flights. 21
  5. Jan 2026: 38 flights. 38
  6. Feb 2026: 50 flights. 50
  7. Mar 2026: 64 flights. 64
  8. Apr 2026: 65 flights. 65
  9. May 2026: 81 flights. 81
  10. Jun 2026: 78 flights. 78
  11. Jul 2026: 47 flights. 47
  12. Aug 2026: 105 flights. 105
  13. Sep 2026: 128 flights. 128
  14. Oct 2026: 56 flights. 56
Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The hatched bar is the current month, still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 781 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service62%
  2. Not stated9%
  3. Other9%
  4. Drone as first responder8%
  5. Patrol support5%
  6. Training and testing4%
  7. Search2%
  8. Traffic and crashes1%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 202610:37 amCall for service12 mincb50025c
Thu 1 Oct 202611:17 amCall for service13 min2f853246
Thu 1 Oct 202611:58 amCall for service2 min40bdd076
Thu 1 Oct 202612:49 pmCall for service13 min7e4f16cb
Thu 1 Oct 20261:02 pmCall for service12 min0316fa81
Thu 1 Oct 20262:20 pmCall for service15 min80bab946
Thu 1 Oct 20262:41 pmCall for service11 min81ff69e7
Thu 1 Oct 20262:53 pmSearch17 min449314d2
Thu 1 Oct 20263:09 pmCall for service12 mineebdcecf
Thu 1 Oct 20263:24 pmCall for service13 min3591cb5e
Fri 2 Oct 202612:16 pmCall for service14 minf7a7c711
Fri 2 Oct 20262:24 pmCall for service9 minfe5800ee
Fri 2 Oct 20262:59 pmPatrol support19 min3d69c3c2
Sat 3 Oct 20261:08 pmCall for service10 min1071a495
Sat 10 Oct 20263:36 pmCall for service14 mine9aba7d7
Tue 13 Oct 202610:04 pmCall for service8 minab0f57f8
Wed 21 Oct 202612:14 pmCall for service9 min13fb5cc8
Wed 21 Oct 20261:36 pmCall for service8 min628e5b57
Wed 21 Oct 20261:53 pmCall for service9 minfea182a1
Wed 21 Oct 20263:01 pmCall for service8 min26de3fe1
Wed 21 Oct 20263:09 pmCall for service11 minff8c015a
Thu 22 Oct 202610:34 amCall for service10 min0188d981
Thu 22 Oct 202610:49 amPatrol support9 min047b03b4
Thu 22 Oct 202611:17 amCall for service12 minc39c97c1
Thu 22 Oct 202612:51 pmCall for service16 mine8248e58
Thu 22 Oct 20261:02 pmPatrol support11 minf1d62000
Thu 22 Oct 20261:06 pmCall for service10 mind4134e82
Thu 22 Oct 20262:24 pmCall for service14 min7436714b
Thu 22 Oct 20263:04 pmOther6 min5af074d6
Thu 22 Oct 20263:13 pmCall for service5 minaa4858e0
Thu 22 Oct 20263:20 pmCall for service9 min59bb9d76
Thu 22 Oct 20263:33 pmCall for service16 minb8d4bb7a
Thu 22 Oct 20263:53 pmCall for service5 min840711dc
Thu 22 Oct 20264:30 pmCall for service12 min97bf5f32
Sat 24 Oct 20268:31 pmCall for service19 mind9d3291d
Tue 27 Oct 20265:34 pmCall for service7 mina6095813
Tue 27 Oct 20266:18 pmCall for service10 mind1b6ca38
Tue 27 Oct 20266:56 pmOther15 mindf43cfd6
Tue 27 Oct 20267:07 pmOther8 mine1b375f8
Tue 27 Oct 20267:28 pmOther9 min8fbfab9b
Tue 27 Oct 20267:42 pmOther16 minf6134148
Tue 27 Oct 20267:52 pmOther19 min6aca67d0
Tue 27 Oct 20268:04 pmOther15 min4fbfad09
Tue 27 Oct 20268:12 pmOther10 min4ea94bc2
Tue 27 Oct 20268:38 pmCall for service7 min8b542402
Tue 27 Oct 20268:56 pmTraffic and crashes7 mine2e2205e
Tue 27 Oct 20269:05 pmCall for service6 min1ebe4905
Tue 27 Oct 20269:24 pmCall for service15 mind368c390
Tue 27 Oct 20269:53 pmCall for service9 mindf350d98
Wed 28 Oct 20265:34 pmCall for service9 min13c1a8f2
Wed 28 Oct 20265:45 pmCall for service9 mind2256c5a
Wed 28 Oct 20265:59 pmCall for service13 min91fff785
Wed 28 Oct 20266:19 pmOther18 min2c22bc2f
Wed 28 Oct 20267:17 pmCall for service7 min8e697f90
Wed 28 Oct 20268:19 pmCall for service7 min7c3601aa
Wed 28 Oct 20269:44 pmCall for service15 minf67331ea

All 56 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. "North Delaware" 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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