drone flights over Wichita that day.

12:25 am

first takeoff; the last was at 4:09 pm.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 42 times on Friday 15 August 2025, the first at 12:25 am and the last at 4:09 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

42 drawable flights of 42. 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 testing60%
Call for service36%
Search2%
Not stated2%

Flights, in order

42 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
12:25 am	Search	4 min	`62bde04c`
1:04 am	Training and testing	11 min	`dd332154`
1:18 am	Not stated	17 min	`a070872d`
4:47 am	Call for service	8 min	`1955d200`
8:34 am	Training and testing	20 min	`1e69e5d8`
8:59 am	Training and testing	22 min	`2a59a16c`
9:17 am	Training and testing	1 min 36 s	`f221266f`
10:12 am	Training and testing	6 min	`a9594dd7`
10:19 am	Training and testing	5 min	`13c626ab`
10:30 am	Training and testing	7 min	`b507348f`
10:38 am	Training and testing	8 min	`00bf56b9`
10:41 am	Call for service	24 min	`b688421f`
10:48 am	Training and testing	9 min	`c181a0e5`
10:58 am	Training and testing	9 min	`5ec474b2`
11:11 am	Training and testing	4 min	`ca62af2a`
11:22 am	Training and testing	9 min	`8ff15ed4`
11:27 am	Call for service	26 min	`c1da45ac`
11:33 am	Training and testing	7 min	`10378e59`
11:51 am	Call for service	26 min	`fabfabff`
11:56 am	Training and testing	21 min	`2c03ef7a`
12:14 pm	Call for service	26 min	`565783a7`
12:18 pm	Training and testing	36 s	`9d3bcb89`
12:22 pm	Training and testing	1 min 19 s	`bb809d1b`
1:02 pm	Call for service	26 min	`752a2b8d`
1:12 pm	Training and testing	7 min	`38a309c7`
1:13 pm	Training and testing	22 min	`c8655032`
1:21 pm	Training and testing	9 min	`3b87c093`
1:26 pm	Call for service	24 min	`fa164f96`
1:33 pm	Training and testing	15 min	`6a541a9f`
1:39 pm	Training and testing	24 min	`e3e095b5`
1:49 pm	Call for service	24 min	`bfd9390d`
1:51 pm	Training and testing	19 min	`526c3947`
2:07 pm	Training and testing	22 min	`fcb11e7c`
2:11 pm	Call for service	23 min	`c8dfce8f`
2:13 pm	Training and testing	17 min	`3b17a814`
2:30 pm	Training and testing	29 s	`abd9455b`
2:32 pm	Call for service	20 min	`a5c522a9`
2:51 pm	Call for service	17 min	`9f49e6ac`
3:05 pm	Call for service	25 min	`044807ba`
3:29 pm	Call for service	23 min	`e684696b`
3:50 pm	Call for service	21 min	`6891028b`
4:09 pm	Call for service	11 min	`50825358`

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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