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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

North, March 2026

A planning area page. 88 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in March 2026.

88

drone flights crossed North.

88

of them in March 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed North 88 times between 4 March 2026 and 28 March 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 March 2026.

88 of the 88 drawable flights that crossed the area in March 2026. 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

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

9% 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 88 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service48%
  2. Drone as first responder20%
  3. Other11%
  4. Not stated8%
  5. Training and testing8%
  6. Patrol support5%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, March 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 4 Mar 20267:38 pmNot stated15 min371bd24d
Fri 6 Mar 202610:15 amTraining and testing9 min587a00f9
Fri 6 Mar 202611:04 amTraining and testing8 min99bd5b24
Fri 6 Mar 202612:46 pmDrone as first responder14 minf18f4a79
Fri 6 Mar 20261:01 pmNot stated15 mincb0db061
Fri 6 Mar 20261:05 pmDrone as first responder16 min6816a3ea
Fri 6 Mar 20261:28 pmCall for service20 min2efc746c
Fri 6 Mar 20262:42 pmOther7 min0cf41a9e
Fri 6 Mar 20269:28 pmCall for service7 min6c827a69
Sat 7 Mar 20264:49 pmDrone as first responder15 min9e20f1c0
Tue 10 Mar 202611:02 amNot stated14 mind2ac8d65
Tue 10 Mar 20261:06 pmDrone as first responder16 min5239e751
Tue 10 Mar 20261:35 pmCall for service16 min752e9231
Tue 10 Mar 20262:07 pmCall for service15 minebc8fe99
Tue 10 Mar 20263:51 pmCall for service14 min236566b8
Wed 11 Mar 202610:04 amCall for service13 minc0787578
Wed 11 Mar 202610:23 amCall for service5 min56ae3c48
Wed 11 Mar 20262:57 pmCall for service9 mina9fb11c8
Thu 12 Mar 20262:08 pmCall for service7 min761843f5
Tue 17 Mar 202612:43 pmNot stated1 min 49 s9c0fc724
Tue 17 Mar 20266:24 pmCall for service9 mine6174f0d
Tue 17 Mar 20266:43 pmCall for service11 min4ca27ec0
Tue 17 Mar 20267:50 pmOther7 min1384f72a
Tue 17 Mar 20269:22 pmCall for service14 minde91243d
Tue 17 Mar 20269:44 pmCall for service11 min21e07d0c
Tue 17 Mar 202610:09 pmCall for service10 minae1cac23
Tue 17 Mar 202611:25 pmCall for service11 mindf96ea39
Wed 18 Mar 20262:21 pmDrone as first responder17 min7f1e309c
Wed 18 Mar 20265:49 pmCall for service7 mine742b0ba
Wed 18 Mar 20266:32 pmPatrol support13 min7a23572b
Wed 18 Mar 20267:04 pmCall for service10 mineeddce55
Wed 18 Mar 20267:23 pmOther5 min7b3a81ac
Wed 18 Mar 20267:38 pmCall for service8 min19c5ac46
Wed 18 Mar 20267:52 pmCall for service10 min14b6867b
Wed 18 Mar 20268:15 pmNot stated8 minf8ada9a2
Wed 18 Mar 20268:36 pmCall for service12 mine265caee
Wed 18 Mar 202610:50 pmNot stated4 min74bfd7a6
Thu 19 Mar 20266:42 pmCall for service8 min9efc415b
Thu 19 Mar 20267:41 pmCall for service13 min75960264
Thu 19 Mar 20268:16 pmOther10 min820e76f4
Thu 19 Mar 20269:37 pmCall for service8 min5562493e
Fri 20 Mar 20265:18 pmOther5 min487ad855
Fri 20 Mar 20266:37 pmDrone as first responder7 mince7dd627
Fri 20 Mar 20266:56 pmCall for service7 min74aac711
Fri 20 Mar 20267:17 pmOther10 minaff0d6bc
Sat 21 Mar 202611:21 amCall for service13 min2a862191
Sat 21 Mar 20261:09 pmCall for service13 min1139617a
Sat 21 Mar 202611:17 pmCall for service9 minaaed9208
Tue 24 Mar 20265:16 pmOther4 min441b2a06
Tue 24 Mar 20265:27 pmCall for service9 min409593ba
Tue 24 Mar 20265:43 pmNot stated9 min4d4175c9
Tue 24 Mar 20265:56 pmOther9 minbb29f02d
Tue 24 Mar 20266:11 pmCall for service12 mine695f472
Tue 24 Mar 20266:25 pmCall for service15 minb41899a8
Tue 24 Mar 20266:42 pmCall for service12 minc394c370
Tue 24 Mar 20267:20 pmCall for service8 min2cca422a
Tue 24 Mar 20267:33 pmDrone as first responder1 min 06 s23e8b487
Tue 24 Mar 20267:46 pmCall for service14 min831ee3b6
Tue 24 Mar 20268:03 pmCall for service11 mina3993b1f
Tue 24 Mar 20268:18 pmDrone as first responder10 minb15cd1d6
Tue 24 Mar 20269:05 pmCall for service12 minc4fd7f00
Tue 24 Mar 20269:36 pmCall for service10 min02354d70
Tue 24 Mar 20269:48 pmOther15 min9a1e95f4
Tue 24 Mar 202610:15 pmCall for service11 min18cec155
Tue 24 Mar 202611:08 pmDrone as first responder11 min2a11b36b
Wed 25 Mar 20262:40 pmCall for service11 min2db26139
Wed 25 Mar 20269:32 pmTraining and testing6 min7dd28441
Thu 26 Mar 202612:22 pmPatrol support12 min63a7b83c
Thu 26 Mar 20262:45 pmPatrol support15 min6e95ed80
Thu 26 Mar 20266:27 pmDrone as first responder11 mina81cac9c
Thu 26 Mar 20267:33 pmCall for service14 minf094086f
Thu 26 Mar 20267:46 pmPatrol support16 min9098c0d8
Thu 26 Mar 20267:56 pmCall for service16 min30baaa32
Thu 26 Mar 20268:59 pmTraining and testing12 minc0868a74
Fri 27 Mar 20267:22 pmCall for service7 mina87d982d
Fri 27 Mar 20267:39 pmCall for service10 minf74e8409
Fri 27 Mar 20267:40 pmDrone as first responder11 min7c23c284
Fri 27 Mar 20268:51 pmDrone as first responder15 min0599e331
Fri 27 Mar 20268:58 pmTraining and testing1 min 40 s31ce2221
Sat 28 Mar 20261:53 pmDrone as first responder11 mine31336b7
Sat 28 Mar 20266:14 pmDrone as first responder14 min2c5e93d7
Sat 28 Mar 20267:33 pmDrone as first responder7 minb3234a39
Sat 28 Mar 20267:50 pmDrone as first responder8 min893a3950
Sat 28 Mar 20268:06 pmDrone as first responder18 min995fe200
Sat 28 Mar 20268:29 pmDrone as first responder13 min985e4aa7
Sat 28 Mar 20269:23 pmOther14 mineff51757
Sat 28 Mar 202610:26 pmTraining and testing6 mincc9c432a
Sat 28 Mar 202610:33 pmTraining and testing7 mind740232b

All 88 flights in March 2026. 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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