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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

North, April 2026

A planning area page. 63 of the 3,951 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in April 2026.

63

drone flights crossed North.

63

of them in April 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed North 63 times between 2 April 2026 and 29 April 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 April 2026.

63 of the 63 drawable flights that crossed the area in April 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

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

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

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 63 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service37%
  2. Drone as first responder17%
  3. Not stated13%
  4. Other13%
  5. Training and testing11%
  6. Patrol support8%
  7. Traffic and crashes2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, April 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 2 Apr 202611:26 amTraining and testing1 min 01 sb11db407
Thu 2 Apr 202612:49 pmNot stated13 minc1a64968
Fri 3 Apr 20261:37 pmTraining and testing42 sfeea3138
Fri 3 Apr 20262:20 pmDrone as first responder10 minf29c2e75
Fri 3 Apr 20262:22 pmDrone as first responder7 min97235347
Sat 4 Apr 202610:45 amNot stated14 min53e775ff
Sat 4 Apr 20262:04 pmDrone as first responder17 mina2d5a0fc
Sat 4 Apr 20262:50 pmOther1 min 11 scd574e9c
Wed 8 Apr 20264:11 pmOther13 min32ea9a9d
Wed 8 Apr 20265:57 pmCall for service7 min02838807
Wed 8 Apr 20266:16 pmOther7 minbccf025c
Wed 8 Apr 20266:43 pmCall for service6 min1908d158
Wed 8 Apr 20267:09 pmCall for service8 min553a83e3
Wed 8 Apr 20267:43 pmCall for service13 minceb6bdb7
Wed 8 Apr 20268:12 pmCall for service14 mina88c7148
Wed 8 Apr 20269:26 pmCall for service12 min2a247fe5
Wed 8 Apr 20269:42 pmCall for service14 min195534d1
Thu 9 Apr 20264:38 pmTraining and testing1 min 10 sa0772179
Thu 9 Apr 20266:55 pmOther13 min158cf62f
Fri 10 Apr 20261:00 pmPatrol support14 min36c7f723
Fri 10 Apr 20261:26 pmPatrol support10 mincab37d17
Sat 11 Apr 20269:53 pmTraining and testing1 min 18 s2715a673
Tue 14 Apr 202610:39 amDrone as first responder14 min4f6ec0b0
Tue 14 Apr 202612:24 pmDrone as first responder13 mina960a470
Tue 14 Apr 202612:27 pmNot stated3 mine3cbbd32
Tue 14 Apr 202612:39 pmTraining and testing10 minfed9b7e9
Tue 14 Apr 202612:44 pmNot stated7 min6d7adabc
Tue 14 Apr 202612:59 pmNot stated7 min6c93401c
Thu 16 Apr 202612:54 pmNot stated7 minef319f01
Thu 16 Apr 20261:45 pmCall for service14 min1908b0e7
Thu 16 Apr 20262:18 pmCall for service8 min2efbf12f
Thu 16 Apr 20263:09 pmCall for service9 min632f2115
Thu 16 Apr 20263:23 pmCall for service14 mindb5d5552
Fri 17 Apr 202611:11 amDrone as first responder9 mindc27b66d
Fri 17 Apr 20263:38 pmDrone as first responder9 min4bbc3da1
Sat 18 Apr 20261:04 pmDrone as first responder14 min6cd3d363
Sat 18 Apr 20264:38 pmDrone as first responder12 minf7e01edd
Tue 21 Apr 20262:02 pmOther17 min7a2dedb6
Tue 21 Apr 20263:52 pmPatrol support17 min8da0ec36
Tue 21 Apr 20265:15 pmTraining and testing8 min1805fd2d
Wed 22 Apr 20263:01 pmPatrol support10 mindf92ea3d
Wed 22 Apr 20263:42 pmPatrol support11 min585e2991
Thu 23 Apr 20264:24 pmNot stated11 min706cad5f
Thu 23 Apr 20265:29 pmNot stated7 minc9aab1cf
Thu 23 Apr 20268:34 pmTraining and testing1 min 37 s5e8fb536
Fri 24 Apr 20267:56 pmCall for service13 min4dd85f8c
Fri 24 Apr 20269:36 pmCall for service15 min52018010
Fri 24 Apr 20269:48 pmDrone as first responder13 mind7b81d29
Tue 28 Apr 20263:58 pmOther3 min8acedbd6
Tue 28 Apr 20267:25 pmCall for service7 min1feab3be
Tue 28 Apr 20268:27 pmCall for service13 min78dbdaa2
Tue 28 Apr 20268:41 pmCall for service5 min712e20ac
Tue 28 Apr 20269:30 pmOther16 min08620481
Tue 28 Apr 20269:46 pmOther12 min7a0d336b
Tue 28 Apr 202610:17 pmCall for service7 min341b9e5b
Tue 28 Apr 202610:34 pmCall for service13 min54a2dcd2
Tue 28 Apr 202610:48 pmCall for service8 minf24abd92
Tue 28 Apr 202611:14 pmCall for service10 min0112605a
Wed 29 Apr 202611:03 amDrone as first responder11 minea938965
Wed 29 Apr 20265:29 pmCall for service6 min7907e52c
Wed 29 Apr 20265:43 pmTraffic and crashes7 min1082b273
Wed 29 Apr 20267:04 pmCall for service10 min3b3cedc8
Wed 29 Apr 20269:13 pmCall for service11 min87198151

All 63 flights in April 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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