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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Upper Northwest, September 2026

A planning area page. 26 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

26

drone flights crossed Upper Northwest.

26

of them in September 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Upper Northwest 26 times between 1 September 2026 and 25 September 2026, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 25 September 2026.

26 of the 26 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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

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

12% 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 26 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service77%
  2. Training and testing8%
  3. Patrol support8%
  4. Not stated4%
  5. Other4%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 1 Sep 202610:35 amTraining and testing7 mina19bbd44
Tue 1 Sep 202610:43 amTraining and testing8 mined500fff
Tue 1 Sep 20264:06 pmPatrol support11 min4e7cf673
Wed 2 Sep 202611:29 amNot stated5 min35028ff7
Wed 2 Sep 202612:45 pmCall for service8 min6d52e233
Thu 3 Sep 20261:16 pmCall for service11 min559fc222
Fri 4 Sep 20263:18 pmPatrol support7 mina1c6ddad
Fri 4 Sep 20267:04 pmCall for service14 min34c3ba83
Fri 4 Sep 20267:20 pmCall for service14 min3c4e905e
Sat 5 Sep 20261:11 pmCall for service12 min9a32ba3e
Tue 8 Sep 20262:20 pmCall for service10 minf60a9a61
Tue 8 Sep 20263:08 pmCall for service14 mind643ce39
Tue 8 Sep 20269:30 pmCall for service10 min83058af6
Wed 9 Sep 20266:20 pmCall for service10 min957a3ced
Thu 10 Sep 202610:03 pmCall for service6 min297b2839
Thu 10 Sep 202610:43 pmCall for service7 min8a063073
Fri 11 Sep 20266:01 pmCall for service10 min42d96406
Tue 15 Sep 20269:18 amCall for service15 min9ba1feb3
Tue 15 Sep 20269:34 amCall for service15 minb5e3e072
Wed 16 Sep 20264:28 pmCall for service13 min9fc28459
Wed 16 Sep 20267:01 pmCall for service18 mine1526de6
Sat 19 Sep 202610:48 amCall for service6 min7d045c6b
Tue 22 Sep 202610:27 pmOther13 min7f19d6dc
Thu 24 Sep 20267:44 pmCall for service12 min70e90af3
Thu 24 Sep 20268:37 pmCall for service6 minf27a0aa4
Fri 25 Sep 20266:15 pmCall for service7 min7bcf0f13

All 26 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 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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