29
drone flights crossed River Wards.
29
of them in December 2025.
13 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Police drones crossed River Wards 29 times between 3 December 2025 and 31 December 2025, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 December 2025.
7 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.
3% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (EST).
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 29 flights that crossed this area.
Hour of day
Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.
Flight list, December 2025
| Date | Takeoff (EST) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 3 Dec 2025 | 1:15 pm | Call for service | 15 min | 77dd1bd1 |
| Wed 3 Dec 2025 | 2:01 pm | Call for service | 10 min | 42489210 |
| Fri 5 Dec 2025 | 11:07 am | Other | 21 min | b3ea709a |
| Fri 5 Dec 2025 | 12:13 pm | Other | 21 min | a0ba9a81 |
| Fri 5 Dec 2025 | 12:53 pm | Other | 10 min | 62940136 |
| Tue 9 Dec 2025 | 11:47 am | Other | 14 min | cafe36f4 |
| Tue 9 Dec 2025 | 11:49 am | Other | 13 min | a30a43aa |
| Tue 9 Dec 2025 | 12:36 pm | Not stated | 13 min | 4f4537a4 |
| Fri 12 Dec 2025 | 10:26 am | Not stated | 12 min | 0be4ce77 |
| Fri 12 Dec 2025 | 10:42 am | Not stated | 10 min | 2430b53c |
| Fri 12 Dec 2025 | 12:18 pm | Training and testing | 14 min | e0a46b18 |
| Sat 13 Dec 2025 | 10:35 am | Other | 16 min | cb8e7394 |
| Sat 13 Dec 2025 | 10:56 am | Other | 12 min | 1c94d0c2 |
| Fri 19 Dec 2025 | 2:07 pm | Training and testing | 16 min | 0dd9f202 |
| Sat 20 Dec 2025 | 10:31 am | Other | 17 min | e2e7f904 |
| Sat 20 Dec 2025 | 11:07 am | Other | 17 min | 2b62bbbe |
| Wed 24 Dec 2025 | 10:33 am | Other | 10 min | 13f4af1b |
| Fri 26 Dec 2025 | 10:26 am | Call for service | 10 min | 294bd27a |
| Fri 26 Dec 2025 | 11:24 am | Call for service | 8 min | 397129e2 |
| Fri 26 Dec 2025 | 1:14 pm | Call for service | 16 min | d34c4ae5 |
| Fri 26 Dec 2025 | 2:13 pm | Call for service | 18 min | e559fa80 |
| Sat 27 Dec 2025 | 10:21 am | Other | 9 min | 91bddd47 |
| Sat 27 Dec 2025 | 10:22 am | Call for service | 10 min | f31a7105 |
| Sat 27 Dec 2025 | 10:25 am | Other | 7 min | e47c7120 |
| Sat 27 Dec 2025 | 10:37 am | Call for service | 13 min | c083b452 |
| Sat 27 Dec 2025 | 10:38 am | Other | 9 min | 712b1dde |
| Sat 27 Dec 2025 | 12:37 pm | Drone as first responder | 14 min | 094621b1 |
| Sat 27 Dec 2025 | 6:27 pm | Patrol support | 19 min | e7d8db61 |
| Wed 31 Dec 2025 | 10:15 pm | Call for service | 17 min | e5c1b82e |
All 29 flights in December 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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