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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

River Wards, January 2026

A planning area page. 45 of the 3,951 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in January 2026.

45

drone flights crossed River Wards.

45

of them in January 2026.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed River Wards 45 times between 2 January 2026 and 30 January 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 January 2026.

45 of the 45 drawable flights that crossed the area in January 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.
River WardsOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

0% 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 45 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Other78%
  2. Call for service18%
  3. Not stated4%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, January 2026

DateTakeoff (EST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 2 Jan 202612:26 pmCall for service18 minb160bbcc
Wed 7 Jan 202610:15 amOther11 min7535b029
Wed 7 Jan 20268:10 pmCall for service13 min1a0344be
Thu 8 Jan 202610:22 amOther17 min0cca1cc7
Thu 8 Jan 20266:42 pmCall for service14 min1e4c5c51
Fri 9 Jan 202610:48 amCall for service8 minb104d99c
Fri 9 Jan 202610:57 amCall for service7 minde998e21
Fri 9 Jan 202611:10 amOther8 min221b899e
Fri 9 Jan 202611:55 amOther8 minabf31f41
Fri 9 Jan 20265:49 pmNot stated15 minff9cd5b7
Fri 16 Jan 20261:26 pmOther15 min7cf17e13
Fri 16 Jan 20262:12 pmOther11 min41f45e23
Sat 17 Jan 202610:35 amOther17 min03f366b8
Sat 17 Jan 20261:47 pmOther11 mine6aab7c9
Sat 17 Jan 20261:49 pmOther18 min0b32c054
Sat 17 Jan 20262:01 pmOther17 mindb3a484b
Sat 17 Jan 20262:31 pmOther11 minb154ba2a
Sat 17 Jan 20262:44 pmOther9 min98fe74c3
Sat 17 Jan 20263:13 pmOther16 min6919fb65
Tue 20 Jan 202611:00 amOther18 mind8cafa30
Tue 20 Jan 202611:28 amOther18 minc2f8e2d3
Tue 20 Jan 202611:57 amOther10 min1b584622
Tue 20 Jan 202612:09 pmOther17 minbecb060f
Tue 20 Jan 202612:18 pmOther8 mine9ed60de
Tue 20 Jan 202612:32 pmOther17 min722d9f37
Tue 20 Jan 202612:45 pmOther8 min23bc5d3a
Tue 20 Jan 202612:55 pmOther15 min443c3d23
Tue 20 Jan 20261:11 pmOther16 mind2664de3
Tue 20 Jan 20261:27 pmOther16 minf3b88e1b
Tue 20 Jan 20261:48 pmOther14 mind74aa1c2
Tue 20 Jan 20262:07 pmOther15 min41ac4e3e
Tue 20 Jan 20262:11 pmOther14 min73a1605d
Tue 20 Jan 20262:33 pmOther17 mined0ad0ba
Tue 20 Jan 20262:43 pmOther11 min04cfe2c9
Tue 20 Jan 20263:13 pmOther14 minbd47dec5
Tue 20 Jan 20263:50 pmOther16 min5cb7c579
Tue 20 Jan 20264:08 pmOther17 min233b3154
Wed 21 Jan 202610:14 amOther16 min241a474b
Wed 21 Jan 202610:33 amOther18 minb10906fc
Wed 21 Jan 202611:20 amOther16 min7f2eb844
Thu 22 Jan 202610:20 amCall for service12 mina85e1a6d
Fri 23 Jan 20261:29 pmCall for service10 min696d10ef
Tue 27 Jan 202612:54 pmNot stated5 min3e397a9c
Thu 29 Jan 20267:43 pmOther10 minde6b74d0
Fri 30 Jan 20269:10 pmCall for service10 mincfe21dca

All 45 flights in January 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. "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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