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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

River Wards, May 2026

A planning area page. 40 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

40

drone flights crossed River Wards.

40

of them in May 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed River Wards 40 times between 1 May 2026 and 29 May 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 May 2026.

40 of the 40 drawable flights that crossed the area in May 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

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

8% 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 40 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Drone as first responder90%
  2. Call for service8%
  3. Not stated2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, May 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 1 May 202610:30 amDrone as first responder13 min26bdc224
Tue 5 May 202611:25 amDrone as first responder15 mind19ed373
Tue 5 May 202612:01 pmDrone as first responder8 min88578959
Tue 5 May 20263:37 pmDrone as first responder12 mine70c3e4b
Tue 5 May 202611:05 pmDrone as first responder13 min010559ed
Wed 6 May 20262:54 pmDrone as first responder14 minc4fb5df2
Thu 7 May 202610:51 amDrone as first responder16 minb975ef5f
Thu 7 May 20268:30 pmDrone as first responder13 mine36bbeec
Thu 7 May 20268:54 pmNot stated14 mind906ecbc
Fri 8 May 202612:34 pmDrone as first responder11 minfa96ebd6
Fri 8 May 20265:16 pmDrone as first responder7 min4fe621f4
Fri 8 May 20268:26 pmDrone as first responder7 min341e6a34
Sat 9 May 202611:10 amDrone as first responder12 minf06c1768
Sat 9 May 20261:47 pmDrone as first responder11 minc4cde55e
Sat 9 May 20268:10 pmDrone as first responder10 min37bd86f2
Sat 9 May 202611:22 pmDrone as first responder11 min04d2d0cb
Tue 12 May 202611:45 amDrone as first responder9 min412996bf
Fri 15 May 20261:41 pmDrone as first responder9 min58c04922
Fri 15 May 20268:32 pmDrone as first responder19 min2c9d98f3
Fri 22 May 20269:06 pmDrone as first responder13 min6859ec92
Tue 26 May 20266:39 pmDrone as first responder14 min7803f624
Tue 26 May 20266:49 pmCall for service12 minb2e895b7
Tue 26 May 20267:58 pmDrone as first responder18 mind9e3008c
Tue 26 May 20269:16 pmDrone as first responder15 min98f6524b
Tue 26 May 20269:46 pmDrone as first responder19 mina2a31f2e
Tue 26 May 202611:47 pmCall for service5 minc15829d6
Wed 27 May 20266:03 pmDrone as first responder16 min224f2eb7
Wed 27 May 20267:32 pmDrone as first responder11 min430de611
Wed 27 May 20269:13 pmDrone as first responder15 min805d009d
Thu 28 May 202611:19 amDrone as first responder9 min615b8c9b
Thu 28 May 20266:56 pmDrone as first responder10 mine8f2dcd0
Thu 28 May 20267:10 pmDrone as first responder8 min42975d27
Thu 28 May 20267:31 pmDrone as first responder10 mine1c86738
Thu 28 May 20268:52 pmDrone as first responder11 min5ad7f905
Fri 29 May 20261:48 pmDrone as first responder4 min17d1dbdc
Fri 29 May 20261:52 pmDrone as first responder17 minbf164861
Fri 29 May 20262:04 pmDrone as first responder13 mindfa0dc31
Fri 29 May 20263:17 pmDrone as first responder13 min58a331aa
Fri 29 May 20265:46 pmDrone as first responder15 mind5ed68f4
Fri 29 May 20267:46 pmCall for service10 min8f697446

All 40 flights in May 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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