8
drone flights crossed Upper North.
8
of them in September 2026.
12 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Police drones crossed Upper North 8 times between 3 September 2026 and 24 September 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 24 September 2026.
2 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 8 flights that crossed this area.
Hour of day
Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.
Flight list, September 2026
| Date | Takeoff (EDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 3 Sep 2026 | 1:16 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 559fc222 |
| Fri 4 Sep 2026 | 5:20 pm | Call for service | 10 min | dec63e26 |
| Fri 4 Sep 2026 | 7:20 pm | Call for service | 14 min | 3c4e905e |
| Tue 8 Sep 2026 | 5:37 pm | Patrol support | 10 min | 7337a7a0 |
| Wed 9 Sep 2026 | 1:47 pm | Patrol support | 12 min | 791a2c59 |
| Fri 11 Sep 2026 | 8:30 pm | Other | 11 min | 1f8f9c85 |
| Wed 16 Sep 2026 | 11:10 am | Call for service | 13 min | fb677f71 |
| Thu 24 Sep 2026 | 2:39 pm | Call for service | 13 min | b87fbb24 |
All 8 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. "Upper North" 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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