drone flights over Wichita that day.

4:20 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:33 pm.

22 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 34 times on Friday 30 May 2025, the first at 4:20 am and the last at 10:33 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

34 drawable flights of 34. 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 testing85%
Events12%
Search3%

Flights, in order

34 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
4:20 am	Search	18 min	`38ba8e7f`
5:37 am	Training and testing	17 min	`b2382066`
5:00 pm	Events	28 min	`a872a5e5`
5:20 pm	Training and testing	21 min	`d73c2626`
5:32 pm	Training and testing	26 min	`b44a3e97`
5:42 pm	Training and testing	21 min	`70d1c14a`
5:48 pm	Training and testing	23 min	`8881f790`
5:58 pm	Events	27 min	`93248d20`
6:11 pm	Training and testing	27 min	`32dbd8d8`
6:25 pm	Training and testing	22 min	`39364e4c`
6:39 pm	Training and testing	24 min	`042d4da5`
6:49 pm	Training and testing	27 min	`27203ff7`
6:52 pm	Training and testing	24 min	`beff7860`
7:04 pm	Events	29 min	`e345b8f9`
7:19 pm	Training and testing	25 min	`1421dfdb`
7:31 pm	Training and testing	25 min	`c4b8110a`
7:35 pm	Training and testing	24 min	`96fbe3c5`
7:44 pm	Events	27 min	`8548934f`
8:12 pm	Training and testing	28 min	`05e0eced`
8:26 pm	Training and testing	25 min	`a825bac8`
8:34 pm	Training and testing	23 min	`c4b4b629`
8:41 pm	Training and testing	25 min	`f2662855`
8:51 pm	Training and testing	21 min	`491be64d`
9:03 pm	Training and testing	19 min	`7db125c0`
9:12 pm	Training and testing	19 min	`78927f04`
9:15 pm	Training and testing	20 min	`8615a172`
9:22 pm	Training and testing	21 min	`751e14da`
9:32 pm	Training and testing	17 min	`0a47b9fb`
9:37 pm	Training and testing	18 min	`a626554f`
9:42 pm	Training and testing	19 min	`d37c5e24`
9:51 pm	Training and testing	21 min	`849b3029`
9:57 pm	Training and testing	16 min	`05941cc7`
10:10 pm	Training and testing	21 min	`a5b83398`
10:33 pm	Training and testing	21 min	`d3935be8`

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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