5
drone flights crossed South.
5
of them in December 2025.
4 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Police drones crossed South 5 times between 2 December 2025 and 12 December 2025, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 12 December 2025.
0 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.
0% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (EST).
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 5 flights that crossed this area.
Hour of day
Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.
Flight list, December 2025
| Date | Takeoff (EST) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 2 Dec 2025 | 7:25 pm | Training and testing | 5 min | 1354c6fb |
| Tue 2 Dec 2025 | 7:32 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 35 s | 0052c347 |
| Fri 12 Dec 2025 | 10:49 am | Events | 4 min | f70674bc |
| Fri 12 Dec 2025 | 11:14 am | Events | 5 min | 357ecb6f |
| Fri 12 Dec 2025 | 12:35 pm | Events | 3 min | f50d3ae2 |
All 5 flights in December 2025. 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. "South" 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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