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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

River Wards, October 2026

A planning area page. 50 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in October 2026.

50

drone flights crossed River Wards.

50

of them in October 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed River Wards 50 times between 1 October 2026 and 31 October 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 October 2026.

50 of the 50 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 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

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

14% 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 50 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service94%
  2. Patrol support4%
  3. Search2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 20262:39 pmCall for service9 min921f4d10
Thu 1 Oct 20263:35 pmPatrol support15 minb1c2a183
Thu 1 Oct 20265:23 pmCall for service13 min8fd41f8b
Thu 1 Oct 20266:12 pmCall for service14 min262f0e0e
Thu 1 Oct 20266:28 pmCall for service14 min01c08b9f
Thu 1 Oct 20268:04 pmCall for service15 minec79c8d5
Thu 1 Oct 20268:17 pmCall for service15 minb643b653
Thu 1 Oct 20269:44 pmCall for service15 min741099c2
Fri 2 Oct 20265:28 pmCall for service8 mina81e6ca4
Fri 2 Oct 20269:28 pmCall for service11 mine85d439a
Sat 3 Oct 202611:27 amCall for service9 min1be70ef7
Sat 3 Oct 202611:42 amCall for service10 minb48f8bd8
Sat 3 Oct 202612:03 pmCall for service13 minc9fee5ff
Tue 6 Oct 202612:29 pmCall for service7 min052fe2e7
Tue 6 Oct 20262:59 pmCall for service7 mine90c1e42
Tue 6 Oct 20264:15 pmCall for service10 mine14a8823
Wed 7 Oct 202611:41 amCall for service9 min9cd0d463
Wed 7 Oct 202611:55 amCall for service10 mine0f6c047
Wed 7 Oct 202612:14 pmCall for service15 minc754bc0b
Fri 9 Oct 20261:02 pmSearch13 min348ee6a9
Sat 10 Oct 20264:11 pmCall for service13 mina4dd2fca
Tue 13 Oct 20267:37 pmCall for service10 min0a6a0095
Tue 13 Oct 20267:54 pmCall for service7 minb5e07973
Tue 13 Oct 20268:52 pmCall for service9 min9e9de78c
Tue 13 Oct 202610:24 pmCall for service11 minba869687
Tue 13 Oct 202611:07 pmCall for service14 min47792fb8
Wed 14 Oct 20268:25 pmCall for service12 minb6431da6
Wed 14 Oct 20268:40 pmCall for service13 minc5c77970
Wed 14 Oct 20269:53 pmCall for service14 min3dbba68c
Thu 15 Oct 20266:29 pmCall for service12 min228aa621
Thu 15 Oct 20268:55 pmCall for service7 mind3dac9f5
Thu 15 Oct 202610:35 pmCall for service10 min63ea1523
Fri 16 Oct 20266:20 pmCall for service8 min50a77e0e
Sat 17 Oct 20267:03 pmCall for service14 min1bb211f3
Sat 17 Oct 20267:09 pmCall for service11 mind0b7b302
Sat 17 Oct 20267:53 pmCall for service16 minbd56dad4
Sat 17 Oct 202610:05 pmCall for service11 mina4969686
Sat 17 Oct 202611:38 pmCall for service10 min8a540cc6
Sat 24 Oct 20266:11 pmCall for service20 min37536a18
Sat 24 Oct 20267:52 pmCall for service19 min5fdeec8d
Sat 24 Oct 202610:10 pmCall for service15 min4e762e87
Tue 27 Oct 20269:53 pmCall for service9 mindf350d98
Wed 28 Oct 20269:44 pmCall for service15 minf67331ea
Thu 29 Oct 20268:18 pmCall for service10 mine0d67fa0
Thu 29 Oct 20269:22 pmCall for service9 min647376cf
Fri 30 Oct 20267:52 pmPatrol support10 min75b5a570
Sat 31 Oct 20266:53 pmCall for service14 min579f8c6d
Sat 31 Oct 20268:58 pmCall for service17 min1a81a8bf
Sat 31 Oct 20269:16 pmCall for service8 minf1743849
Sat 31 Oct 202610:33 pmCall for service19 minad04d1dc

All 50 flights in October 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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