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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

River Wards, February 2026

A planning area page. 67 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in February 2026.

67

drone flights crossed River Wards.

67

of them in February 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed River Wards 67 times between 4 February 2026 and 27 February 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 27 February 2026.

67 of the 67 drawable flights that crossed the area in February 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

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

1% 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 67 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Other76%
  2. Call for service9%
  3. Drone as first responder6%
  4. Not stated4%
  5. Patrol support3%
  6. Training and testing1%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, February 2026

DateTakeoff (EST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 4 Feb 202610:54 amOther14 min6040fecd
Wed 4 Feb 202610:58 amOther16 minbbb3908b
Wed 4 Feb 202611:03 amOther16 min4e5e65fb
Wed 4 Feb 202611:12 amOther18 min6cba135e
Wed 4 Feb 202611:46 amOther11 min14536939
Wed 4 Feb 202611:47 amOther15 min58df6ad2
Wed 4 Feb 202612:03 pmOther15 min5eeeb468
Wed 4 Feb 202612:08 pmOther16 min9d07f5f0
Wed 4 Feb 202612:23 pmOther16 min3cd9ccf8
Wed 4 Feb 20261:06 pmOther16 min04ca4ef9
Wed 4 Feb 20261:08 pmOther12 min2d2b4dc3
Wed 4 Feb 20262:04 pmOther13 min6fe80018
Wed 4 Feb 20262:15 pmOther15 min58c16200
Wed 4 Feb 20262:31 pmOther14 min6859b6b8
Wed 4 Feb 20262:47 pmOther14 min42178935
Wed 4 Feb 20263:14 pmOther15 minb03260e8
Wed 4 Feb 20263:28 pmOther14 mine0ba089d
Wed 4 Feb 20268:37 pmPatrol support10 mind0798c68
Thu 5 Feb 202610:37 amOther15 minf948f2ed
Thu 5 Feb 202610:55 amOther16 min35cf330e
Thu 5 Feb 202611:17 amOther11 min55a8d061
Thu 5 Feb 202611:52 amOther13 min3d0d9461
Thu 5 Feb 202612:07 pmOther18 min22b64975
Thu 5 Feb 202612:28 pmOther16 minac6f07fe
Thu 5 Feb 20261:36 pmOther13 min0efa55a2
Thu 5 Feb 20261:40 pmOther14 minc9f48a0d
Thu 5 Feb 20262:03 pmOther17 min58ff9f62
Thu 5 Feb 20262:13 pmOther10 min847a65d2
Thu 5 Feb 20262:31 pmOther12 mincc0c8ffc
Thu 5 Feb 20262:47 pmOther14 min1117e22b
Thu 5 Feb 20262:55 pmOther14 mindd5a99a5
Thu 5 Feb 20263:26 pmOther9 min63371636
Thu 5 Feb 20267:11 pmPatrol support12 min6459fe0b
Thu 5 Feb 20268:04 pmNot stated13 min0fbaad4a
Fri 6 Feb 202610:14 amOther16 minef0cbe4a
Fri 6 Feb 202610:17 amOther11 minacad50ee
Fri 6 Feb 202610:30 amOther7 min5e4db4cd
Fri 6 Feb 202610:31 amOther11 min2fbcdffd
Fri 6 Feb 202612:33 pmOther8 mind4e571fc
Fri 6 Feb 20261:05 pmDrone as first responder9 min9a91e069
Fri 6 Feb 20261:15 pmOther17 min4881960b
Fri 6 Feb 20261:27 pmOther11 min060396a2
Fri 6 Feb 20261:53 pmOther13 min343bcb40
Fri 6 Feb 20262:11 pmOther12 minb9ed4f0e
Fri 6 Feb 20262:37 pmOther8 min185df3dc
Fri 6 Feb 20262:58 pmOther10 min367c0aeb
Fri 6 Feb 20263:59 pmTraining and testing5 min1913228f
Fri 6 Feb 20265:50 pmDrone as first responder9 min67bf360c
Fri 6 Feb 20268:28 pmNot stated10 min050b2959
Wed 11 Feb 20261:05 pmCall for service16 min64e6c586
Wed 11 Feb 20261:21 pmOther17 minb3d2ab9a
Wed 11 Feb 20262:00 pmOther15 minf67d5565
Wed 11 Feb 20262:52 pmOther14 minb2a9562f
Thu 12 Feb 202610:55 amOther13 min508b6589
Thu 12 Feb 202611:53 amOther12 minb8313acd
Thu 12 Feb 202612:16 pmOther11 min63188b4c
Thu 12 Feb 20261:12 pmOther12 min4c1dd0f1
Thu 12 Feb 20268:20 pmCall for service10 min33f2653f
Fri 13 Feb 20265:28 pmOther12 min36f91d27
Fri 13 Feb 20265:46 pmOther13 minee3bd4fb
Fri 13 Feb 202610:29 pmCall for service11 minc028b9c5
Sat 14 Feb 20266:46 pmCall for service9 min83d67914
Wed 18 Feb 20266:34 pmNot stated14 min25c74467
Wed 18 Feb 20268:30 pmCall for service5 minf7a00e93
Sat 21 Feb 202612:59 pmDrone as first responder12 minb0dc7f7d
Fri 27 Feb 20261:25 pmDrone as first responder12 minb4f73973
Fri 27 Feb 20267:32 pmCall for service15 min2c24318d

All 67 flights in February 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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