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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

North Delaware, October 2025

A planning area page. 29 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in October 2025.

29

drone flights crossed North Delaware.

29

of them in October 2025.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed North Delaware 29 times between 1 October 2025 and 30 October 2025, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 October 2025.

29 of the 29 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 2025. 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

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

7% 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.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 29 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service55%
  2. Other28%
  3. Patrol support14%
  4. Training and testing3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2025

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 1 Oct 20252:37 pmCall for service8 mindfcf68af
Wed 1 Oct 20253:00 pmCall for service8 min99e4a42f
Sat 4 Oct 20253:37 pmCall for service22 minaccdcd09
Sat 4 Oct 20253:54 pmPatrol support18 min32b65c17
Sat 4 Oct 20254:11 pmCall for service10 min84d10598
Tue 7 Oct 202511:18 amCall for service9 min1ceabb30
Tue 7 Oct 202512:17 pmCall for service15 min01c207b0
Tue 7 Oct 20251:32 pmCall for service13 mindb119211
Tue 7 Oct 20252:32 pmOther13 min4b46a1b6
Tue 7 Oct 20253:08 pmCall for service12 mindda86bc2
Tue 7 Oct 20254:43 pmPatrol support16 min1bf75db6
Wed 8 Oct 202512:14 pmCall for service7 minbf4ecc06
Wed 8 Oct 202512:28 pmPatrol support17 min7f52f27e
Wed 8 Oct 202512:47 pmPatrol support18 minb0d3fa28
Wed 8 Oct 20252:52 pmCall for service15 min4b1ae1c9
Wed 8 Oct 20257:51 pmOther15 min99785701
Thu 9 Oct 20256:15 pmCall for service13 min42523c02
Thu 9 Oct 20257:07 pmOther9 minfa03348c
Thu 9 Oct 20259:34 pmOther14 mindc8dc569
Thu 9 Oct 202511:33 pmCall for service9 min4755a45f
Sat 11 Oct 20255:45 pmCall for service11 mind0dea20b
Sat 11 Oct 20256:13 pmCall for service17 minaa016142
Sat 11 Oct 20257:26 pmOther13 mineb631ae6
Sat 11 Oct 20258:26 pmOther13 min64c1669a
Thu 16 Oct 202512:45 pmOther10 min661dfd0c
Thu 16 Oct 20252:59 pmCall for service7 mincecab128
Fri 17 Oct 202510:07 amOther22 min2d82bbb1
Fri 17 Oct 20253:45 pmCall for service15 minbb879fdd
Thu 30 Oct 202510:21 pmTraining and testing1 min 46 s5198d003

All 29 flights in October 2025. 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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