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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Upper Northwest, June 2026

A planning area page. 11 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in June 2026.

11

drone flights crossed Upper Northwest.

11

of them in June 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Upper Northwest 11 times between 11 June 2026 and 30 June 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 June 2026.

11 of the 11 drawable flights that crossed the area in June 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.
Upper NorthwestOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

9% 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 11 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Training and testing55%
  2. Patrol support27%
  3. Drone as first responder18%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, June 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 11 Jun 202612:03 pmTraining and testing17 mind8418f57
Thu 11 Jun 202612:28 pmTraining and testing18 min941bcdfd
Thu 11 Jun 20262:25 pmTraining and testing12 minf205f2c3
Thu 11 Jun 20262:38 pmTraining and testing10 minbea44a46
Fri 12 Jun 20269:19 amDrone as first responder9 min4a7dd1cd
Fri 12 Jun 202612:32 pmTraining and testing18 min37efd01e
Fri 12 Jun 202612:57 pmDrone as first responder14 mina4788ca3
Sat 13 Jun 202610:49 amTraining and testing1 min 57 s4fc44b57
Wed 17 Jun 20268:47 pmPatrol support10 min7a70f462
Thu 18 Jun 202610:25 pmPatrol support16 min13474414
Tue 30 Jun 20265:11 pmPatrol support12 minacb83ade

All 11 flights in June 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 Northwest" 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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