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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

River Wards, April 2026

A planning area page. 19 of the 3,951 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in April 2026.

19

drone flights crossed River Wards.

19

of them in April 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed River Wards 19 times between 3 April 2026 and 29 April 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 April 2026.

19 of the 19 drawable flights that crossed the area in April 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

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

11% 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 19 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service53%
  2. Other21%
  3. Drone as first responder11%
  4. Patrol support11%
  5. Not stated5%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, April 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 3 Apr 20262:22 pmDrone as first responder7 min97235347
Sat 4 Apr 202612:48 pmCall for service18 min254282bd
Sat 4 Apr 20261:46 pmCall for service10 min2128a43c
Wed 8 Apr 20266:16 pmOther7 minbccf025c
Wed 8 Apr 20267:09 pmCall for service8 min553a83e3
Fri 10 Apr 20261:26 pmPatrol support10 mincab37d17
Tue 14 Apr 202612:59 pmNot stated7 min6c93401c
Thu 16 Apr 20263:09 pmCall for service9 min632f2115
Fri 17 Apr 20263:16 pmCall for service10 min1916c867
Tue 21 Apr 20262:02 pmOther17 min7a2dedb6
Wed 22 Apr 20263:42 pmPatrol support11 min585e2991
Fri 24 Apr 20269:36 pmCall for service15 min52018010
Fri 24 Apr 20269:48 pmDrone as first responder13 mind7b81d29
Tue 28 Apr 20267:25 pmCall for service7 min1feab3be
Tue 28 Apr 20269:30 pmOther16 min08620481
Tue 28 Apr 20269:46 pmOther12 min7a0d336b
Tue 28 Apr 202610:34 pmCall for service13 min54a2dcd2
Tue 28 Apr 202611:14 pmCall for service10 min0112605a
Wed 29 Apr 20267:04 pmCall for service10 min3b3cedc8

All 19 flights in April 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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