6
drone flights over Wichita that day.
1:14 am
first takeoff; the last was at 3:23 am.
14 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Wichita police drones flew 6 times on Sunday 18 May 2025, the first at 1:14 am and the last at 3:23 am CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:14 am | Training and testing | 20 min | 00632251 |
| 1:36 am | Training and testing | 15 min | 2a487d1a |
| 1:52 am | Training and testing | 12 min | c3cd5285 |
| 2:45 am | Call for service | 14 min | 1f5b5b37 |
| 3:01 am | Call for service | 20 min | f1c0826a |
| 3:23 am | Call for service | 11 min | 84e26b11 |
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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