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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

River Wards, October 2025

A planning area page. 14 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in October 2025.

14

drone flights crossed River Wards.

14

of them in October 2025.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed River Wards 14 times between 1 October 2025 and 30 October 2025, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 October 2025.

14 of the 14 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 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.
River WardsOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

0% 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 14 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service79%
  2. Not stated21%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2025

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 1 Oct 202511:15 amCall for service20 min62ed3b54
Wed 1 Oct 20253:23 pmNot stated14 min7aecbd1b
Fri 3 Oct 20253:41 pmCall for service13 min5ceed1ba
Sat 4 Oct 20251:32 pmCall for service13 min2f6b8774
Tue 7 Oct 202511:02 amNot stated13 minc8518b55
Tue 7 Oct 202512:43 pmCall for service15 minb7270dae
Sat 11 Oct 20256:13 pmCall for service17 minaa016142
Fri 17 Oct 202512:32 pmNot stated19 minebf53343
Tue 28 Oct 20255:43 pmCall for service16 minf931d50f
Wed 29 Oct 202510:58 amCall for service12 mine4d1ec50
Wed 29 Oct 202512:34 pmCall for service19 minac744af5
Wed 29 Oct 20252:13 pmCall for service11 min1fda6b0a
Thu 30 Oct 20252:46 pmCall for service16 mind92712f9
Thu 30 Oct 20253:06 pmCall for service21 min1df1e8f6

All 14 flights in October 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. "River Wards" 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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