7
drone flights over Wichita that day.
5:40 am
first takeoff; the last was at 7:36 pm.
6 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Wichita police drones flew 7 times on Thursday 17 July 2025, the first at 5:40 am and the last at 7:36 pm 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
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5:40 am | Call for service | 8 min | 13c723c3 |
| 3:27 pm | Training and testing | 6 min | 59879781 |
| 3:37 pm | Training and testing | 53 s | 1904d0f1 |
| 3:39 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 20 s | 21e64447 |
| 3:42 pm | Training and testing | 35 s | 18898e93 |
| 7:09 pm | Search | 23 min | 93ec0e9f |
| 7:36 pm | Search | 21 min | 641a2ace |
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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