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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

River Wards, June 2026

A planning area page. 31 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in June 2026.

31

drone flights crossed River Wards.

31

of them in June 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed River Wards 31 times between 2 June 2026 and 30 June 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 June 2026.

31 of the 31 drawable flights that crossed the area in June 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

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

6% 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 31 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Drone as first responder42%
  2. Call for service35%
  3. Not stated10%
  4. Patrol support10%
  5. Training and testing3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, June 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 2 Jun 202611:21 amCall for service14 min1e999175
Wed 3 Jun 202611:30 amCall for service13 min090fdd01
Wed 3 Jun 20261:39 pmCall for service7 minafcb9f5d
Wed 3 Jun 20263:10 pmDrone as first responder10 minfe613ef2
Thu 4 Jun 20261:26 pmCall for service12 min13ec29c0
Thu 4 Jun 20264:01 pmCall for service7 min728d3478
Fri 5 Jun 202611:27 amCall for service12 min65ed066a
Fri 5 Jun 20263:53 pmCall for service8 min9327cd3d
Fri 5 Jun 20268:39 pmCall for service11 min2118b6b1
Fri 5 Jun 202610:18 pmDrone as first responder13 min805bd56f
Sat 6 Jun 20261:21 pmCall for service13 minfb2a95d3
Tue 9 Jun 202610:33 amDrone as first responder8 min24fa8c63
Tue 9 Jun 202611:17 amDrone as first responder10 min7155dc8b
Tue 9 Jun 20262:02 pmNot stated15 min7713a1d7
Tue 9 Jun 20263:46 pmDrone as first responder8 min1974599f
Wed 10 Jun 20264:31 pmDrone as first responder7 min9223f0e2
Sat 13 Jun 202610:27 amDrone as first responder10 minf8d22beb
Sat 13 Jun 202611:28 amDrone as first responder10 min9da97b01
Sat 13 Jun 202612:43 pmDrone as first responder12 minefdbdf32
Tue 16 Jun 20261:14 pmTraining and testing13 min633395a0
Wed 24 Jun 202611:24 amPatrol support7 min66f7cd80
Wed 24 Jun 202611:29 amPatrol support14 min428cbfe4
Wed 24 Jun 202611:48 amPatrol support11 mine9bf902d
Wed 24 Jun 20262:11 pmNot stated10 min96fac045
Wed 24 Jun 20264:20 pmNot stated8 min400c73f6
Thu 25 Jun 20261:47 pmDrone as first responder12 min60391363
Fri 26 Jun 20261:00 pmDrone as first responder8 min49f62451
Tue 30 Jun 20261:31 pmCall for service14 min57bd80e0
Tue 30 Jun 20261:50 pmCall for service15 min463f379e
Tue 30 Jun 20269:08 pmDrone as first responder12 min47adad4f
Tue 30 Jun 202611:28 pmDrone as first responder9 min73f8c80a

All 31 flights in June 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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