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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

River WardsBoundary license unconfirmed, not for publication

A planning area page. 482 of the 3,895 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area.

482

drone flights crossed River Wards.

46

of them in October 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed River Wards 482 times between 29 July 2024 and 30 October 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 October 2026.

46 of the 46 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 2026. The outlined area is the neighborhood. Paths run beyond it because each whole flight is drawn, minus its first and last 200 m.
River WardsOne flight; takeoff and landing removed

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

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

2 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are counted but never listed or drawn.

Month by month

Flights that crossed River Wards, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. 5
  2. 0
  3. 0
  4. 0
  5. 0
  6. 0
  7. 0
  8. 0
  9. 0
  10. 0
  11. 0
  12. 15
  13. 0
  14. 3
  15. 3
  16. 14
  17. 2
  18. 29
  19. 45
  20. 67
  21. 28
  22. 19
  23. 40
  24. 31
  25. 18
  26. 42
  27. 75
  28. 46
Jul 24Aug 24Sep 24Oct 24Nov 24Dec 24Jan 25Feb 25Mar 25Apr 25May 25Jun 25Jul 25Aug 25Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The two hatched bars are the most recent months and are provisional. The current month is still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 482 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service47%
  2. Other25%
  3. Drone as first responder13%
  4. Not stated9%
  5. Patrol support4%
  6. Training and testing1%
  7. Traffic and crashes1%
  8. Search0%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 20262:39 pmCall for service9 min921f4d10
Thu 1 Oct 20263:35 pmPatrol support15 minb1c2a183
Thu 1 Oct 20265:23 pmCall for service13 min8fd41f8b
Thu 1 Oct 20266:12 pmCall for service14 min262f0e0e
Thu 1 Oct 20266:28 pmCall for service14 min01c08b9f
Thu 1 Oct 20268:04 pmCall for service15 minec79c8d5
Thu 1 Oct 20268:17 pmCall for service15 minb643b653
Thu 1 Oct 20269:44 pmCall for service15 min741099c2
Fri 2 Oct 20265:28 pmCall for service8 mina81e6ca4
Fri 2 Oct 20269:28 pmCall for service11 mine85d439a
Sat 3 Oct 202611:27 amCall for service9 min1be70ef7
Sat 3 Oct 202611:42 amCall for service10 minb48f8bd8
Sat 3 Oct 202612:03 pmCall for service13 minc9fee5ff
Tue 6 Oct 202612:29 pmCall for service7 min052fe2e7
Tue 6 Oct 20262:59 pmCall for service7 mine90c1e42
Tue 6 Oct 20264:15 pmCall for service10 mine14a8823
Wed 7 Oct 202611:41 amCall for service9 min9cd0d463
Wed 7 Oct 202611:55 amCall for service10 mine0f6c047
Wed 7 Oct 202612:14 pmCall for service15 minc754bc0b
Fri 9 Oct 20261:02 pmSearch13 min348ee6a9
Sat 10 Oct 20264:11 pmCall for service13 mina4dd2fca
Tue 13 Oct 20267:37 pmCall for service10 min0a6a0095
Tue 13 Oct 20267:54 pmCall for service7 minb5e07973
Tue 13 Oct 20268:52 pmCall for service9 min9e9de78c
Tue 13 Oct 202610:24 pmCall for service11 minba869687
Tue 13 Oct 202611:07 pmCall for service14 min47792fb8
Wed 14 Oct 20268:25 pmCall for service12 minb6431da6
Wed 14 Oct 20268:40 pmCall for service13 minc5c77970
Wed 14 Oct 20269:53 pmCall for service14 min3dbba68c
Thu 15 Oct 20266:29 pmCall for service12 min228aa621
Thu 15 Oct 20268:55 pmCall for service7 mind3dac9f5
Thu 15 Oct 202610:35 pmCall for service10 min63ea1523
Fri 16 Oct 20266:20 pmCall for service8 min50a77e0e
Sat 17 Oct 20267:03 pmCall for service14 min1bb211f3
Sat 17 Oct 20267:09 pmCall for service11 mind0b7b302
Sat 17 Oct 20267:53 pmCall for service16 minbd56dad4
Sat 17 Oct 202610:05 pmCall for service11 mina4969686
Sat 17 Oct 202611:38 pmCall for service10 min8a540cc6
Sat 24 Oct 20266:11 pmCall for service20 min37536a18
Sat 24 Oct 20267:52 pmCall for service19 min5fdeec8d
Sat 24 Oct 202610:10 pmCall for service15 min4e762e87
Tue 27 Oct 20269:53 pmCall for service9 mindf350d98
Wed 28 Oct 20269:44 pmCall for service15 minf67331ea
Thu 29 Oct 20268:18 pmCall for service10 mine0d67fa0
Thu 29 Oct 20269:22 pmCall for service9 min647376cf
Fri 30 Oct 20267:52 pmPatrol support10 min75b5a570

All 46 listable flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are counted in the totals but not listed. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
  • Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
  • Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • Boundary. "River Wards" is a planning area polygon from City of Philadelphia (Planning Districts), licence recorded as "City of Philadelphia GIS disclaimer (provided as is; no license stated)", in the place layer file for Philadelphia. Boundary license unconfirmed, not for publication: ADR 0003 bars paging a place whose licence is unknown or share-alike; this page exists only in the local demo.
  • A flight counts for this area when its simplified path intersects the polygon (shapely). The join uses the unclipped line; only the clipped line is drawn.

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