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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

River Wards, August 2026

A planning area page. 42 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

42

drone flights crossed River Wards.

42

of them in August 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed River Wards 42 times between 6 August 2026 and 28 August 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 August 2026.

42 of the 42 drawable flights that crossed the area in August 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.

5% 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 42 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service83%
  2. Other10%
  3. Patrol support5%
  4. Traffic and crashes2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 6 Aug 202611:23 amPatrol support9 min7533810d
Thu 6 Aug 20268:52 pmPatrol support15 min6ab997b9
Thu 6 Aug 20269:04 pmCall for service14 mind784020e
Wed 12 Aug 202612:27 pmCall for service11 min6dc418f1
Wed 12 Aug 20265:59 pmCall for service11 min5f64a057
Wed 12 Aug 20267:11 pmCall for service12 min6d4b7021
Wed 12 Aug 202610:42 pmCall for service11 minea6f40da
Thu 13 Aug 202610:39 amCall for service12 min0283e999
Thu 13 Aug 202610:46 amCall for service12 min0915ae43
Thu 13 Aug 202610:52 amCall for service12 mind32dd505
Thu 13 Aug 202610:59 amCall for service12 mind13dabf3
Thu 13 Aug 20262:17 pmCall for service15 min8cae43a3
Thu 13 Aug 20262:27 pmCall for service18 min9b6dc2d2
Thu 13 Aug 20264:04 pmCall for service10 min61f647f4
Thu 13 Aug 20268:28 pmCall for service12 min8abb224b
Thu 13 Aug 20268:51 pmCall for service7 min9f8581ad
Thu 13 Aug 20269:00 pmCall for service11 min51a40265
Thu 13 Aug 20269:31 pmCall for service9 min52750938
Thu 13 Aug 202610:05 pmCall for service13 min24f51f51
Fri 14 Aug 20264:25 pmOther16 min5b166581
Fri 14 Aug 20264:35 pmOther15 min5d46dca7
Fri 14 Aug 20267:26 pmCall for service16 mine9a4452e
Fri 14 Aug 20267:38 pmCall for service13 minad597d16
Sat 15 Aug 20268:28 pmCall for service15 min93ab816a
Tue 18 Aug 202612:48 pmCall for service9 min0990b10a
Thu 20 Aug 202612:24 pmTraffic and crashes10 mine580bac9
Thu 20 Aug 20262:51 pmCall for service13 min688b78e6
Tue 25 Aug 202612:44 pmCall for service10 min1e1388eb
Tue 25 Aug 20265:38 pmCall for service11 min000c3d07
Tue 25 Aug 20268:01 pmCall for service16 min6188f0c1
Wed 26 Aug 202611:18 amCall for service6 min86bb73c1
Wed 26 Aug 202611:24 amOther9 min15d5607d
Wed 26 Aug 20262:02 pmCall for service10 min158f6c60
Wed 26 Aug 20266:44 pmCall for service11 min637870d0
Wed 26 Aug 20268:39 pmCall for service15 min76871dbe
Wed 26 Aug 20269:20 pmCall for service11 min94c9e9b6
Thu 27 Aug 202610:33 amOther8 minbefff85d
Thu 27 Aug 20263:48 pmCall for service13 min73d3ae91
Thu 27 Aug 20264:01 pmCall for service13 min3811c15d
Thu 27 Aug 20264:13 pmCall for service12 min17ad6584
Fri 28 Aug 202611:43 amCall for service10 min5e64e2b1
Fri 28 Aug 20268:32 pmCall for service10 min15d74e08

All 42 flights in August 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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