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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

River Wards, July 2026

A planning area page. 18 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in July 2026.

18

drone flights crossed River Wards.

18

of them in July 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed River Wards 18 times between 2 July 2026 and 25 July 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 25 July 2026.

18 of the 18 drawable flights that crossed the area in July 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

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

0% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (EDT).

1 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 18 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service67%
  2. Drone as first responder11%
  3. Search11%
  4. Not stated6%
  5. Other6%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, July 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 2 Jul 20266:17 pmDrone as first responder8 minc7267004
Thu 2 Jul 20266:39 pmNot stated8 min1cff073d
Sat 11 Jul 20268:02 pmCall for service14 min38505a7b
Tue 14 Jul 20268:36 pmCall for service10 min44a8381a
Tue 14 Jul 20269:07 pmCall for service15 mind67a06ea
Wed 15 Jul 202612:16 pmCall for service12 min92e9cf6f
Wed 15 Jul 20263:34 pmCall for service15 mine2841f0d
Fri 17 Jul 20263:45 pmCall for service8 min5db41159
Wed 22 Jul 20265:58 pmCall for service11 min37e11c3d
Wed 22 Jul 20267:51 pmCall for service11 mina748586d
Fri 24 Jul 20266:10 pmCall for service6 min179843b5
Fri 24 Jul 20269:10 pmCall for service9 min7dfe0b51
Sat 25 Jul 20265:36 pmDrone as first responder15 min0d677627
Sat 25 Jul 20268:13 pmSearch13 min430f54f4
Sat 25 Jul 20268:23 pmSearch11 mina8876b2f
Sat 25 Jul 20269:01 pmOther7 minb5090505
Sat 25 Jul 20269:32 pmCall for service9 mina093173f
Sat 25 Jul 20269:41 pmCall for service7 min0d0e1caa

All 18 flights in July 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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