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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

North, November 2025

A planning area page. 27 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in November 2025.

27

drone flights crossed North.

27

of them in November 2025.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed North 27 times between 1 November 2025 and 29 November 2025, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 November 2025.

27 of the 27 drawable flights that crossed the area in November 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

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

4% 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 27 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Events48%
  2. Other15%
  3. Call for service15%
  4. Patrol support11%
  5. Training and testing4%
  6. Drone as first responder4%
  7. Not stated4%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, November 2025

DateTakeoff (EST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sat 1 Nov 20256:40 pmPatrol support10 min57ef3d7c
Fri 7 Nov 20255:34 pmOther16 min866e6af7
Thu 13 Nov 20252:45 pmOther9 minfec01a38
Fri 14 Nov 20251:52 pmTraining and testing5 min37fead1d
Fri 14 Nov 20256:18 pmCall for service14 min772d75ff
Thu 20 Nov 202511:40 pmPatrol support15 min1c2ce0d7
Sat 22 Nov 20256:42 pmDrone as first responder16 min563df4c0
Sat 22 Nov 20256:54 pmCall for service15 min2bc9fe6a
Sun 23 Nov 20256:43 amEvents19 min9b9584e8
Sun 23 Nov 20257:08 amEvents21 minbf451ca3
Sun 23 Nov 20258:37 amEvents20 min49d1115f
Sun 23 Nov 20258:55 amEvents17 minb671ec2b
Sun 23 Nov 20259:13 amEvents22 min9e756ca7
Sun 23 Nov 20259:55 amEvents20 min21791b81
Sun 23 Nov 202510:15 amEvents22 minbf43e112
Sun 23 Nov 202510:41 amEvents15 min554296b6
Sun 23 Nov 202510:57 amEvents20 min4205fcc9
Sun 23 Nov 202511:21 amEvents14 min4d956139
Sun 23 Nov 202512:32 pmEvents15 min3eb6bfad
Sun 23 Nov 20251:17 pmEvents16 mined776ede
Sun 23 Nov 20251:49 pmEvents19 min2eb9440f
Tue 25 Nov 202511:04 amNot stated11 mind419bf93
Wed 26 Nov 20254:38 pmOther6 min6817f7a6
Wed 26 Nov 20254:49 pmPatrol support16 minc922d9b2
Wed 26 Nov 20257:24 pmOther9 min7c0b05e5
Sat 29 Nov 20253:20 pmCall for service17 min8a64cd88
Sat 29 Nov 20253:41 pmCall for service18 min3a60e875

All 27 flights in November 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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