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Wichita, Kansas · one day

Friday 17 January 2025

12 drone flights from Wichita Police Department's published record.

12

drone flights over Wichita that day.

12:55 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:55 pm.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 12 times on Friday 17 January 2025, the first at 12:55 am and the last at 11:55 pm CST, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

12 drawable flights of 12. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, CST.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service83%
  2. Training and testing17%

Flights, in order

12 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.

Takeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
12:55 amCall for service4 minb35ec5f4
12:25 pmCall for service23 min9c5ddce7
12:51 pmCall for service7 min175d1d9c
2:24 pmTraining and testing1 min 06 s8158a24b
2:26 pmTraining and testing32 sf7606c95
10:37 pmCall for service15 min716cddd8
10:51 pmCall for service18 min53364eb5
10:53 pmCall for service18 min51a48ef2
11:05 pmCall for service18 min713a11b9
11:07 pmCall for service18 minb8553541
11:30 pmCall for service16 min8abb3253
11:55 pmCall for service17 mine1891191

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.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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