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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

North Delaware, December 2025

A planning area page. 21 of the 3,951 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in December 2025.

21

drone flights crossed North Delaware.

21

of them in December 2025.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed North Delaware 21 times between 2 December 2025 and 31 December 2025, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 December 2025.

21 of the 21 drawable flights that crossed the area in December 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

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

14% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (EST).

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.

  1. Call for service62%
  2. Patrol support19%
  3. Not stated10%
  4. Training and testing5%
  5. Other5%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, December 2025

DateTakeoff (EST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 2 Dec 20258:36 pmCall for service10 min8c3f98d9
Fri 5 Dec 20253:22 pmPatrol support20 minb3a483a5
Fri 5 Dec 20253:45 pmNot stated12 min48c12407
Fri 5 Dec 20253:50 pmPatrol support21 minfb47f4b6
Fri 5 Dec 20254:13 pmNot stated15 min88763724
Fri 5 Dec 20254:41 pmPatrol support20 min281eb169
Thu 11 Dec 20258:15 pmCall for service10 minbfcd7fdf
Thu 11 Dec 20259:14 pmCall for service6 min56bea5e9
Thu 11 Dec 202511:17 pmCall for service10 min162cdeb8
Sat 13 Dec 20255:30 pmCall for service8 mina1952dac
Sat 13 Dec 20255:39 pmCall for service13 min819352e7
Sat 13 Dec 20255:59 pmCall for service8 mind6cd627a
Sat 13 Dec 20256:30 pmPatrol support15 min4a52a5cb
Sat 13 Dec 20256:48 pmCall for service15 min04f5a603
Sat 13 Dec 202510:07 pmCall for service12 minf17a6b65
Sat 13 Dec 202510:49 pmCall for service4 min8384bd8f
Tue 16 Dec 20253:39 pmCall for service18 min593eab6b
Wed 31 Dec 20256:04 pmTraining and testing1 min 37 sf7e3ec0e
Wed 31 Dec 20257:10 pmCall for service15 min0486d3fe
Wed 31 Dec 20257:39 pmOther10 min9a7b4c24
Wed 31 Dec 20259:29 pmCall for service9 minea2ef08e

All 21 flights in December 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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