drone flights over Wichita that day.

10:37 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:57 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 22 times on Friday 8 August 2025, the first at 10:37 am and the last at 9:57 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

22 drawable flights of 22. 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 testing95%
Call for service5%

Flights, in order

22 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
10:37 am	Training and testing	20 min	`45066d2c`
10:39 am	Training and testing	9 min	`7f41f59b`
10:50 am	Training and testing	38 s	`cdb6b935`
10:51 am	Training and testing	7 min	`522484e0`
10:59 am	Training and testing	8 min	`cb49c00b`
11:00 am	Training and testing	10 min	`9dfcf5db`
11:09 am	Training and testing	9 min	`5476bc1c`
11:10 am	Training and testing	12 min	`7248b2f8`
11:19 am	Training and testing	46 s	`5cf7d639`
11:22 am	Training and testing	43 s	`214ccdb6`
11:24 am	Training and testing	1 min 00 s	`ba277d89`
11:25 am	Training and testing	5 min	`62917464`
11:26 am	Training and testing	57 s	`3ac0f7b6`
12:59 pm	Training and testing	8 min	`7b574209`
1:03 pm	Training and testing	12 min	`fabd9300`
1:08 pm	Training and testing	8 min	`a1ed6ffc`
1:17 pm	Training and testing	10 min	`1cfd830a`
1:18 pm	Training and testing	13 min	`6b4f204e`
1:29 pm	Training and testing	10 min	`e2a21eb2`
1:32 pm	Training and testing	5 min	`9e30598b`
1:41 pm	Training and testing	4 min	`7922652f`
9:57 pm	Call for service	12 min	`061f1fbe`

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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