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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

North, July 2026

A planning area page. 77 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in July 2026.

77

drone flights crossed North.

77

of them in July 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed North 77 times between 2 July 2026 and 31 July 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 July 2026.

77 of the 77 drawable flights that crossed the area in July 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

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

8% 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 77 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service64%
  2. Drone as first responder16%
  3. Training and testing5%
  4. Other5%
  5. Patrol support5%
  6. Traffic and crashes3%
  7. Not stated1%
  8. Search1%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, July 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 2 Jul 20262:13 pmDrone as first responder10 min4881d6e3
Thu 2 Jul 20265:09 pmCall for service10 mine18c6503
Thu 2 Jul 20265:31 pmDrone as first responder6 min23cc740d
Thu 2 Jul 20266:17 pmDrone as first responder8 minc7267004
Thu 2 Jul 20266:39 pmNot stated8 min1cff073d
Thu 2 Jul 202610:27 pmDrone as first responder14 minb423a7bd
Fri 3 Jul 202612:08 pmCall for service11 min5b363906
Fri 3 Jul 20266:12 pmDrone as first responder15 minc5d989ea
Fri 3 Jul 20266:55 pmDrone as first responder12 min90a3d054
Fri 3 Jul 20267:08 pmDrone as first responder8 min713f5a6a
Fri 3 Jul 20267:59 pmDrone as first responder8 min6f770d2f
Fri 3 Jul 20268:11 pmTraining and testing2 mina87c9c6e
Fri 3 Jul 20269:25 pmDrone as first responder6 min7559cbf1
Wed 8 Jul 202611:20 pmCall for service19 mind551d289
Wed 8 Jul 202611:35 pmCall for service16 min80e47bff
Thu 9 Jul 20269:10 pmTraffic and crashes16 min560803b7
Fri 10 Jul 20268:38 pmCall for service16 min8383100e
Sat 11 Jul 20268:02 pmCall for service14 min38505a7b
Sat 11 Jul 20269:17 pmCall for service17 mincbbe9cf1
Tue 14 Jul 202610:38 amCall for service10 min573b3b21
Tue 14 Jul 202611:04 amCall for service15 min72deb5a0
Tue 14 Jul 202611:21 amCall for service9 min4efea8d8
Tue 14 Jul 202611:53 amCall for service12 mindb9a5cf8
Tue 14 Jul 20267:23 pmCall for service17 minc1a0453c
Tue 14 Jul 20268:05 pmCall for service15 min99c81b8f
Tue 14 Jul 20268:21 pmCall for service10 min73aeffbf
Tue 14 Jul 20268:36 pmCall for service10 min44a8381a
Tue 14 Jul 20268:48 pmOther7 mineae08de6
Tue 14 Jul 20269:07 pmCall for service15 mind67a06ea
Wed 15 Jul 202610:15 amCall for service15 min4b3452a5
Wed 15 Jul 202612:16 pmCall for service12 min92e9cf6f
Wed 15 Jul 20261:00 pmCall for service9 min4b96bfc3
Wed 15 Jul 20262:28 pmCall for service10 mina37f2b77
Wed 15 Jul 20262:50 pmPatrol support16 minba6a165f
Wed 15 Jul 20263:20 pmCall for service8 min7d50f14a
Wed 15 Jul 20263:34 pmCall for service15 mine2841f0d
Wed 15 Jul 20264:15 pmTraffic and crashes7 minf0ff1efa
Fri 17 Jul 202610:57 amDrone as first responder8 min42e07683
Fri 17 Jul 202612:27 pmOther11 min25be4a58
Fri 17 Jul 202612:57 pmTraining and testing41 s83871c49
Fri 17 Jul 20261:28 pmCall for service6 minab2b95d5
Fri 17 Jul 20261:36 pmCall for service5 min41d34416
Fri 17 Jul 20263:45 pmCall for service8 min5db41159
Wed 22 Jul 20265:58 pmCall for service11 min37e11c3d
Wed 22 Jul 20267:00 pmCall for service6 min0ea6bc87
Wed 22 Jul 20267:51 pmCall for service11 mina748586d
Wed 22 Jul 20269:13 pmCall for service12 min301ceff7
Wed 22 Jul 20269:29 pmTraining and testing16 min7b8c68c9
Thu 23 Jul 202610:28 pmPatrol support11 mina636e4dc
Fri 24 Jul 20266:10 pmCall for service6 min179843b5
Fri 24 Jul 20266:20 pmCall for service10 min28942084
Fri 24 Jul 20266:31 pmCall for service6 minac2ffe3c
Fri 24 Jul 20267:05 pmCall for service9 min1f502c17
Fri 24 Jul 20268:41 pmCall for service6 mind2099344
Fri 24 Jul 20269:10 pmCall for service9 min7dfe0b51
Fri 24 Jul 20269:44 pmCall for service15 min9cab7d8a
Fri 24 Jul 202610:02 pmCall for service8 min41c9b4f0
Sat 25 Jul 20265:36 pmDrone as first responder15 min0d677627
Sat 25 Jul 20266:06 pmDrone as first responder5 mincbb22628
Sat 25 Jul 20266:11 pmOther16 minbc620427
Sat 25 Jul 20266:53 pmCall for service11 minab5f51ba
Sat 25 Jul 20267:06 pmCall for service13 min83859cfc
Sat 25 Jul 20268:13 pmSearch13 min430f54f4
Sat 25 Jul 20269:01 pmOther7 minb5090505
Sat 25 Jul 20269:32 pmCall for service9 mina093173f
Sat 25 Jul 20269:41 pmCall for service7 min0d0e1caa
Sat 25 Jul 202610:54 pmCall for service7 minb1a0de6b
Tue 28 Jul 202612:46 pmPatrol support18 minaeb7c418
Tue 28 Jul 20261:19 pmTraining and testing6 min3795417c
Wed 29 Jul 202612:11 pmCall for service17 min54931363
Wed 29 Jul 202612:32 pmCall for service17 min1f8bc924
Wed 29 Jul 20266:51 pmPatrol support7 min26740142
Wed 29 Jul 20267:31 pmCall for service19 min21293a20
Wed 29 Jul 20268:02 pmCall for service16 min11d9b65d
Wed 29 Jul 20268:40 pmCall for service7 minfad70ad7
Wed 29 Jul 20269:10 pmCall for service15 minb957970f
Fri 31 Jul 202611:12 amCall for service20 min5fb986b2

All 77 flights in July 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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