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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

North, December 2025

A planning area page. 72 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in December 2025.

72

drone flights crossed North.

72

of them in December 2025.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed North 72 times between 2 December 2025 and 31 December 2025, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 December 2025.

72 of the 72 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.
NorthOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

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

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 72 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Other42%
  2. Call for service31%
  3. Training and testing17%
  4. Not stated7%
  5. Traffic and crashes1%
  6. Drone as first responder1%
  7. Patrol support1%

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 20258:56 pmOther10 minc6f49c0b
Wed 3 Dec 202511:08 amOther12 min2a8057f8
Wed 3 Dec 20251:15 pmCall for service15 min77dd1bd1
Wed 3 Dec 20252:01 pmCall for service10 min42489210
Wed 3 Dec 20252:36 pmCall for service8 min1fc5b82b
Wed 3 Dec 20259:52 pmTraining and testing3 min9200c575
Wed 3 Dec 20259:58 pmTraining and testing2 min4250613a
Thu 4 Dec 202512:45 pmOther9 mine41763f8
Thu 4 Dec 20254:31 pmCall for service4 min7ca62278
Fri 5 Dec 202510:25 amOther9 minfa334207
Fri 5 Dec 202510:41 amOther10 mined327139
Fri 5 Dec 202511:07 amOther21 minb3ea709a
Fri 5 Dec 202511:12 amOther12 min67ee297b
Fri 5 Dec 202512:13 pmOther21 mina0ba9a81
Fri 5 Dec 202512:53 pmOther10 min62940136
Fri 5 Dec 20251:16 pmOther12 min469974f9
Fri 5 Dec 20256:01 pmTraining and testing5 min1d75911d
Sat 6 Dec 20251:58 pmCall for service8 min3707d8a7
Tue 9 Dec 202511:47 amOther14 mincafe36f4
Tue 9 Dec 202511:49 amOther13 mina30a43aa
Tue 9 Dec 202512:36 pmNot stated13 min4f4537a4
Wed 10 Dec 20251:46 pmTraining and testing4 min7e6f8e3c
Fri 12 Dec 202510:26 amNot stated12 min0be4ce77
Fri 12 Dec 202510:33 amOther14 mina69e222d
Fri 12 Dec 202510:42 amNot stated10 min2430b53c
Fri 12 Dec 202510:51 amOther10 min85dbb037
Fri 12 Dec 202510:55 amNot stated9 minf45fbb80
Fri 12 Dec 202511:07 amNot stated10 minf78bfde7
Fri 12 Dec 202512:18 pmTraining and testing14 mine0a46b18
Sat 13 Dec 202510:35 amOther16 mincb8e7394
Sat 13 Dec 202510:56 amOther12 min1c94d0c2
Sat 13 Dec 202511:26 amOther12 mine1ced881
Sat 13 Dec 202510:16 pmTraining and testing2 min8d945c4e
Tue 16 Dec 202510:39 amOther8 minc20f5b10
Tue 16 Dec 202510:53 amOther10 minbbc69ece
Tue 16 Dec 20251:47 pmTraffic and crashes17 min1b7dc5f9
Fri 19 Dec 20252:07 pmTraining and testing16 min0dd9f202
Fri 19 Dec 20257:31 pmTraining and testing2 min12709677
Fri 19 Dec 202511:11 pmTraining and testing1 min 22 s6d80498f
Sat 20 Dec 202510:31 amOther17 mine2e7f904
Sat 20 Dec 202510:59 amOther11 min18b2cc21
Sat 20 Dec 202511:07 amOther17 min2b62bbbe
Sat 20 Dec 202511:41 amOther11 min93e1b3a7
Tue 23 Dec 20256:46 pmOther17 min0a7c6d29
Tue 23 Dec 20257:30 pmCall for service19 min530328f9
Tue 23 Dec 202511:05 pmTraining and testing1 min 34 sd3691e0d
Tue 23 Dec 202511:11 pmTraining and testing6 minf29bd479
Wed 24 Dec 202510:33 amOther10 min13f4af1b
Thu 25 Dec 20255:50 pmCall for service3 min4523406e
Fri 26 Dec 202510:22 amOther14 minfd1986c9
Fri 26 Dec 202510:26 amCall for service10 min294bd27a
Fri 26 Dec 202510:48 amOther7 min9bde6f65
Fri 26 Dec 202511:24 amCall for service8 min397129e2
Fri 26 Dec 202512:22 pmCall for service18 minde2a2dfc
Fri 26 Dec 20251:14 pmCall for service16 mind34c4ae5
Fri 26 Dec 20252:13 pmCall for service18 mine559fa80
Fri 26 Dec 20252:57 pmCall for service21 min27cd0a7e
Sat 27 Dec 202510:02 amTraining and testing1 min 54 s0cb7c1b0
Sat 27 Dec 202510:21 amOther9 min91bddd47
Sat 27 Dec 202510:22 amCall for service10 minf31a7105
Sat 27 Dec 202510:25 amOther7 mine47c7120
Sat 27 Dec 202510:37 amCall for service13 minc083b452
Sat 27 Dec 202510:38 amOther9 min712b1dde
Sat 27 Dec 202512:37 pmDrone as first responder14 min094621b1
Sat 27 Dec 20256:27 pmPatrol support19 mine7d8db61
Sat 27 Dec 20259:17 pmCall for service5 min1d09ed0a
Sat 27 Dec 202510:47 pmCall for service13 min439f1627
Wed 31 Dec 20257:17 pmCall for service8 mine0f0be1a
Wed 31 Dec 20257:58 pmCall for service9 min87ee9318
Wed 31 Dec 20258:17 pmCall for service19 mine9801ed3
Wed 31 Dec 20259:20 pmCall for service14 min6346f6a3
Wed 31 Dec 202510:15 pmCall for service17 mine5c1b82e

All 72 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" 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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