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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

South, August 2026

A planning area page. 22 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

22

drone flights crossed South.

22

of them in August 2026.

19 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed South 22 times between 13 August 2026 and 29 August 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 August 2026.

22 of the 22 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.
SouthOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

0% 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 22 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Events73%
  2. Other14%
  3. Training and testing9%
  4. Not stated5%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 13 Aug 202610:57 amOther5 minf50687d7
Thu 13 Aug 202611:19 amOther5 mina6477b96
Thu 13 Aug 202611:51 amOther3 min0f174c4a
Thu 13 Aug 20268:39 pmEvents18 min1c9bde3a
Wed 19 Aug 20263:11 pmTraining and testing1 min 04 sc0ac409b
Tue 25 Aug 20268:06 pmEvents15 min65bae6b9
Fri 28 Aug 20264:46 pmTraining and testing1 min 44 s4d332a50
Sat 29 Aug 202611:02 amEvents11 min234741ed
Sat 29 Aug 202612:07 pmEvents21 min34f04ced
Sat 29 Aug 202612:58 pmEvents20 mine9a289a1
Sat 29 Aug 20262:48 pmEvents17 min142ec1e2
Sat 29 Aug 20263:07 pmNot stated23 min27cdeb42
Sat 29 Aug 20263:33 pmEvents18 min04de9725
Sat 29 Aug 20264:15 pmEvents21 mina6b53763
Sat 29 Aug 20265:00 pmEvents21 min0bb7d564
Sat 29 Aug 20265:21 pmEvents22 mind29b535d
Sat 29 Aug 20265:45 pmEvents25 min6136d525
Sat 29 Aug 20266:12 pmEvents21 min28ff686d
Sat 29 Aug 20266:37 pmEvents21 minaf6e12f7
Sat 29 Aug 20267:00 pmEvents19 mine36bca48
Sat 29 Aug 20267:22 pmEvents23 minff09c8d9
Sat 29 Aug 20267:47 pmEvents19 minfc35b203

All 22 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. "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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