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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

River Wards, March 2026

A planning area page. 28 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in March 2026.

28

drone flights crossed River Wards.

28

of them in March 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed River Wards 28 times between 4 March 2026 and 27 March 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 27 March 2026.

28 of the 28 drawable flights that crossed the area in March 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

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

4% 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 28 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service46%
  2. Drone as first responder21%
  3. Not stated14%
  4. Training and testing7%
  5. Other7%
  6. Patrol support4%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, March 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 4 Mar 20267:38 pmNot stated15 min371bd24d
Fri 6 Mar 202610:15 amTraining and testing9 min587a00f9
Fri 6 Mar 202611:04 amTraining and testing8 min99bd5b24
Fri 6 Mar 202612:46 pmDrone as first responder14 minf18f4a79
Fri 6 Mar 20261:01 pmNot stated15 mincb0db061
Sat 7 Mar 20264:49 pmDrone as first responder15 min9e20f1c0
Tue 10 Mar 20261:06 pmDrone as first responder16 min5239e751
Tue 10 Mar 20263:51 pmCall for service14 min236566b8
Wed 11 Mar 20262:10 pmDrone as first responder12 min6f4a089f
Wed 11 Mar 20263:40 pmDrone as first responder11 mindb6bf32f
Tue 17 Mar 20266:24 pmCall for service9 mine6174f0d
Tue 17 Mar 20269:22 pmCall for service14 minde91243d
Tue 17 Mar 202611:25 pmCall for service11 mindf96ea39
Wed 18 Mar 20265:49 pmCall for service7 mine742b0ba
Wed 18 Mar 20267:04 pmCall for service10 mineeddce55
Thu 19 Mar 20267:21 pmNot stated13 mine58905a6
Thu 19 Mar 20268:16 pmOther10 min820e76f4
Fri 20 Mar 20266:56 pmCall for service7 min74aac711
Tue 24 Mar 20265:43 pmNot stated9 min4d4175c9
Tue 24 Mar 20265:56 pmOther9 minbb29f02d
Tue 24 Mar 20266:11 pmCall for service12 mine695f472
Tue 24 Mar 20266:42 pmCall for service12 minc394c370
Tue 24 Mar 20267:20 pmCall for service8 min2cca422a
Tue 24 Mar 20267:46 pmCall for service14 min831ee3b6
Tue 24 Mar 20269:05 pmCall for service12 minc4fd7f00
Thu 26 Mar 20262:45 pmPatrol support15 min6e95ed80
Thu 26 Mar 20266:27 pmDrone as first responder11 mina81cac9c
Fri 27 Mar 20265:37 pmCall for service12 min13ad7279

All 28 flights in March 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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