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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

River Wards, September 2026

A planning area page. 75 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

75

drone flights crossed River Wards.

75

of them in September 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed River Wards 75 times between 2 September 2026 and 30 September 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 September 2026.

75 of the 75 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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

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

12% 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 75 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service87%
  2. Patrol support7%
  3. Traffic and crashes4%
  4. Search1%
  5. Other1%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 2 Sep 20265:44 pmCall for service11 mindc2f5f3f
Wed 2 Sep 20266:27 pmCall for service9 mindce9864a
Wed 2 Sep 20268:26 pmCall for service8 mindf65048a
Wed 2 Sep 20269:37 pmCall for service14 min63b17370
Wed 2 Sep 202610:09 pmCall for service9 minc416b068
Wed 2 Sep 202610:19 pmCall for service15 mina21c092e
Wed 2 Sep 202610:51 pmCall for service16 minccf1dbe3
Wed 2 Sep 202611:03 pmCall for service6 min582d0664
Thu 3 Sep 202611:46 amCall for service11 min00b5fd9f
Thu 3 Sep 20266:57 pmCall for service8 minb0b78a07
Thu 3 Sep 20269:19 pmCall for service7 min394e2aba
Fri 4 Sep 202610:45 amSearch19 minffc3a43f
Fri 4 Sep 202611:23 amCall for service12 min39793147
Fri 4 Sep 202612:03 pmCall for service16 mined1487cb
Fri 4 Sep 20261:04 pmCall for service7 min2bfbe108
Fri 4 Sep 20264:47 pmCall for service12 min9bd66dd0
Fri 4 Sep 20267:35 pmCall for service11 mine5906acd
Fri 4 Sep 20267:53 pmCall for service6 mindd11c804
Fri 4 Sep 20269:51 pmCall for service12 min33ab83e3
Sat 5 Sep 20266:40 pmCall for service14 minb511c827
Sat 5 Sep 20267:15 pmCall for service11 min38ba785a
Sat 5 Sep 20268:53 pmCall for service15 min20339d51
Sat 5 Sep 20269:05 pmCall for service13 minb7f45abc
Sat 5 Sep 20269:16 pmCall for service16 min6714cde2
Sat 5 Sep 20269:29 pmCall for service15 min5ca3fcfa
Sat 5 Sep 202611:23 pmCall for service10 mine29cd811
Tue 8 Sep 20262:10 pmCall for service11 min4b3367df
Tue 8 Sep 20264:06 pmCall for service12 minad7baf84
Tue 8 Sep 20264:36 pmCall for service9 min652b95c4
Wed 9 Sep 202610:36 pmCall for service11 minb463bba5
Sat 12 Sep 202611:48 amCall for service5 min6ac54143
Sat 12 Sep 202612:26 pmCall for service10 min0afa5b08
Sat 12 Sep 202611:35 pmCall for service13 min53efefd8
Tue 15 Sep 202611:14 amCall for service12 min7ed875c7
Tue 15 Sep 20265:39 pmCall for service13 min32ff203b
Tue 15 Sep 20266:24 pmCall for service18 min4954e29a
Wed 16 Sep 202611:08 amCall for service13 mind3b1bbc2
Wed 16 Sep 20261:51 pmCall for service12 min1ee529b3
Wed 16 Sep 20264:50 pmCall for service13 min82723666
Wed 16 Sep 20265:18 pmCall for service7 min56088494
Wed 16 Sep 20269:29 pmCall for service17 min42c1a230
Wed 16 Sep 20269:41 pmCall for service20 min9d71684a
Wed 16 Sep 202611:57 pmCall for service15 min411b788f
Thu 17 Sep 202611:47 amCall for service8 min3d717d00
Thu 17 Sep 20262:15 pmCall for service15 minb0e0ccb3
Thu 17 Sep 20262:19 pmCall for service7 min933f1a81
Thu 17 Sep 20266:19 pmCall for service9 min0e5fdd85
Thu 17 Sep 20266:51 pmCall for service8 min78e351d2
Fri 18 Sep 20267:16 pmTraffic and crashes13 min968ac9ff
Fri 18 Sep 20268:53 pmTraffic and crashes15 min7a080143
Fri 18 Sep 20269:07 pmCall for service12 min44bed50a
Fri 18 Sep 20269:37 pmCall for service12 minf4f24239
Sat 19 Sep 20261:22 pmCall for service19 min6ff2ff5a
Sat 19 Sep 20262:08 pmCall for service14 min190dad22
Sat 19 Sep 20265:16 pmOther16 min66435eba
Tue 22 Sep 202612:08 pmCall for service13 min0430efb7
Tue 22 Sep 20265:46 pmCall for service11 min0a6b3e67
Tue 22 Sep 20265:53 pmTraffic and crashes13 mincfb4de4d
Wed 23 Sep 20262:58 pmCall for service9 min9413b0d8
Wed 23 Sep 20263:27 pmPatrol support14 min3fb0f7b1
Wed 23 Sep 20263:36 pmPatrol support15 min7f3969d4
Wed 23 Sep 20268:22 pmPatrol support7 minb7307347
Thu 24 Sep 202612:45 pmCall for service12 min143c3b42
Thu 24 Sep 20265:25 pmCall for service12 min00090e85
Thu 24 Sep 20266:03 pmCall for service14 minf9b1b24a
Thu 24 Sep 202611:56 pmPatrol support6 minc490c8a4
Fri 25 Sep 202611:22 amCall for service12 mine2e12e88
Fri 25 Sep 202612:45 pmCall for service11 min14fed5fe
Fri 25 Sep 20263:21 pmCall for service12 mindb5b5a0e
Fri 25 Sep 20263:59 pmCall for service12 min83ef90fd
Fri 25 Sep 20265:26 pmCall for service17 minab6ddf83
Tue 29 Sep 202611:23 amCall for service8 minab7cca1e
Tue 29 Sep 202612:19 pmPatrol support6 minc6846e29
Tue 29 Sep 20262:27 pmCall for service10 minc758c99c
Wed 30 Sep 20265:49 pmCall for service14 minbbc6ff93

All 75 flights in September 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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