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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

North, October 2025

A planning area page. 53 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in October 2025.

53

drone flights crossed North.

53

of them in October 2025.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed North 53 times between 1 October 2025 and 30 October 2025, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 October 2025.

53 of the 53 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.
NorthOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

0% 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 53 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service53%
  2. Not stated17%
  3. Other17%
  4. Events4%
  5. Training and testing4%
  6. Traffic and crashes4%
  7. Drone as first responder2%

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 202511:15 amCall for service20 min62ed3b54
Wed 1 Oct 20251:48 pmCall for service13 minbace26d0
Wed 1 Oct 20253:23 pmNot stated14 min7aecbd1b
Wed 1 Oct 20254:01 pmNot stated5 min6c3d1848
Wed 1 Oct 20257:57 pmOther15 min1e2af94d
Wed 1 Oct 20258:15 pmEvents3 min0e47246b
Wed 1 Oct 20258:23 pmEvents2 minfd4c2074
Thu 2 Oct 20256:17 pmTraining and testing3 min37953d19
Fri 3 Oct 20253:41 pmCall for service13 min5ceed1ba
Fri 3 Oct 20254:12 pmCall for service7 minfd86bdc3
Sat 4 Oct 202510:16 amOther18 min32befc23
Sat 4 Oct 202511:33 amCall for service11 min3373c1d7
Sat 4 Oct 20251:23 pmCall for service19 minb35a9f8b
Sat 4 Oct 20251:32 pmCall for service13 min2f6b8774
Sat 4 Oct 20252:17 pmCall for service20 min8ff31c0d
Sat 4 Oct 20252:34 pmCall for service12 minc3a7ed32
Sat 4 Oct 20256:44 pmCall for service7 minaa004d28
Tue 7 Oct 202511:02 amNot stated13 minc8518b55
Tue 7 Oct 202512:32 pmNot stated17 minf3aa2d08
Tue 7 Oct 202512:43 pmCall for service15 minb7270dae
Tue 7 Oct 20256:05 pmTraining and testing7 min5cc1473b
Tue 7 Oct 20256:34 pmCall for service14 minb655ba48
Wed 8 Oct 20257:18 pmNot stated12 min4515442d
Thu 9 Oct 20258:28 pmCall for service11 minebf68067
Thu 9 Oct 20258:52 pmOther1 min 42 sed7ca373
Thu 9 Oct 20258:57 pmNot stated12 min185dab4e
Thu 9 Oct 20259:54 pmOther11 min4d86ee74
Fri 10 Oct 20255:17 pmCall for service16 min9abeac66
Fri 10 Oct 20259:11 pmCall for service13 min8ba41436
Thu 16 Oct 20251:38 pmCall for service9 minca596f26
Fri 17 Oct 202512:32 pmNot stated19 minebf53343
Tue 21 Oct 20254:07 pmCall for service12 mind5be620c
Tue 21 Oct 20254:19 pmCall for service14 min79a3bed2
Wed 22 Oct 202511:59 amTraffic and crashes12 min9456a3c5
Wed 22 Oct 20253:15 pmTraffic and crashes12 min16d1adef
Wed 22 Oct 20259:49 pmNot stated14 min1ee0d40b
Fri 24 Oct 20254:09 pmCall for service13 min1fda6f4a
Sat 25 Oct 20258:07 pmDrone as first responder18 min5723c30d
Sat 25 Oct 20259:04 pmOther8 min0882c081
Tue 28 Oct 202511:30 amCall for service10 minffb99338
Tue 28 Oct 20253:38 pmNot stated15 min70794311
Tue 28 Oct 20255:43 pmCall for service16 minf931d50f
Wed 29 Oct 202510:58 amCall for service12 mine4d1ec50
Wed 29 Oct 202512:02 pmOther6 min5d87764c
Wed 29 Oct 202512:11 pmOther5 min774a2ff9
Wed 29 Oct 202512:34 pmCall for service19 minac744af5
Wed 29 Oct 20251:03 pmCall for service12 min51702599
Wed 29 Oct 20252:13 pmCall for service11 min1fda6b0a
Wed 29 Oct 20252:40 pmOther11 min84eefdb0
Wed 29 Oct 20253:27 pmOther7 min773e0352
Wed 29 Oct 20253:28 pmCall for service16 min856c14c1
Wed 29 Oct 20253:59 pmCall for service15 minded12b9f
Thu 30 Oct 20252:46 pmCall for service16 mind92712f9

All 53 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" 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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