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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Upper Northwest, August 2026

A planning area page. 10 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

10

drone flights crossed Upper Northwest.

10

of them in August 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Upper Northwest 10 times between 7 August 2026 and 29 August 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 August 2026.

10 of the 10 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.
Upper NorthwestOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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 10 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service40%
  2. Patrol support30%
  3. Other20%
  4. Drone as first responder10%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 7 Aug 20261:50 pmCall for service12 min16651568
Wed 12 Aug 20268:37 pmPatrol support15 mine8e08234
Wed 12 Aug 20269:23 pmPatrol support15 min3138b82d
Tue 18 Aug 20263:15 pmOther9 mincba36248
Wed 19 Aug 20261:13 pmCall for service9 min3d81c3ec
Tue 25 Aug 20261:43 pmPatrol support15 min4923f360
Tue 25 Aug 20266:24 pmOther7 mine7503379
Sat 29 Aug 202612:00 pmDrone as first responder13 minea126728
Sat 29 Aug 20268:11 pmCall for service4 min2bf04bb5
Sat 29 Aug 20269:05 pmCall for service12 min3a3d9bdf

All 10 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. "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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