drone flights over Wichita that day.

6:59 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:53 pm.

24 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 43 times on Sunday 4 May 2025, the first at 6:59 am and the last at 11:53 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

43 drawable flights of 43. 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, CDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Training and testing93%
Call for service5%
Not stated2%

Flights, in order

43 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 (CDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
6:59 am	Training and testing	26 min	`b8729100`
7:19 am	Training and testing	10 min	`faa001e9`
7:21 am	Training and testing	24 min	`65dbb0d7`
7:40 am	Training and testing	22 min	`1e62687c`
7:43 am	Training and testing	22 min	`ebc677ca`
7:59 am	Training and testing	19 min	`4133a755`
8:04 am	Training and testing	24 min	`1587fb55`
8:13 am	Training and testing	26 min	`21f06ebc`
8:21 am	Training and testing	24 min	`f8de3388`
8:25 am	Training and testing	27 min	`75ae1d22`
8:40 am	Training and testing	25 min	`5f18cd1b`
8:50 am	Training and testing	25 min	`0e894762`
9:02 am	Training and testing	20 min	`831cc542`
9:12 am	Training and testing	25 min	`dc559102`
9:22 am	Training and testing	26 min	`e51cf3c5`
9:33 am	Training and testing	26 min	`2b474596`
9:40 am	Training and testing	22 min	`ea93f40b`
9:56 am	Training and testing	24 min	`9c526326`
10:02 am	Training and testing	24 min	`51904fde`
10:20 am	Training and testing	15 min	`daaffd69`
10:22 am	Training and testing	23 min	`db65115b`
11:20 am	Training and testing	24 min	`fc0c4dc4`
11:47 am	Training and testing	24 min	`97cae289`
12:08 pm	Training and testing	23 min	`9ea7a3d7`
12:12 pm	Training and testing	26 min	`3cf0f209`
12:32 pm	Training and testing	24 min	`fcecc59d`
12:33 pm	Training and testing	23 min	`71c6939e`
12:57 pm	Training and testing	23 min	`1f972a2e`
12:58 pm	Training and testing	24 min	`52a04086`
1:21 pm	Training and testing	25 min	`71fcd56c`
1:23 pm	Training and testing	25 min	`2fec6089`
1:46 pm	Training and testing	23 min	`96e08f4a`
1:48 pm	Training and testing	26 min	`4302682c`
2:11 pm	Training and testing	25 min	`3aad8004`
2:15 pm	Training and testing	25 min	`1799919a`
2:37 pm	Training and testing	25 min	`b885f017`
2:41 pm	Training and testing	27 min	`8fd2b8c8`
3:03 pm	Not stated	24 min	`7c0a2410`
3:05 pm	Training and testing	26 min	`2dfac9cf`
3:28 pm	Training and testing	27 min	`e4bc881e`
3:29 pm	Training and testing	25 min	`c317b8e2`
11:32 pm	Call for service	19 min	`4a749a61`
11:53 pm	Call for service	18 min	`69c39e34`

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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