drone flights over Wichita that day.

8:26 am

first takeoff; the last was at 6:29 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 18 times on Wednesday 20 August 2025, the first at 8:26 am and the last at 6:29 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

18 drawable flights of 18. 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 testing94%
Call for service6%

Flights, in order

18 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
8:26 am	Training and testing	2 min	`669e9989`
9:19 am	Training and testing	2 min	`c990e86b`
9:19 am	Training and testing	5 min	`6e8eb613`
9:24 am	Training and testing	2 min	`113da236`
9:25 am	Training and testing	6 min	`fd6bb2ab`
9:29 am	Training and testing	1 min 24 s	`02b7cbdb`
11:00 am	Training and testing	15 min	`1c06197a`
11:07 am	Training and testing	11 min	`65f3c47e`
11:23 am	Training and testing	2 min	`c7f8eb78`
11:50 am	Training and testing	5 min	`91064095`
11:57 am	Training and testing	11 min	`0c2af5b3`
12:23 pm	Training and testing	14 min	`c887b9e2`
12:43 pm	Training and testing	6 min	`f056b62b`
12:52 pm	Training and testing	15 min	`b035ebde`
1:09 pm	Training and testing	19 min	`a71902f1`
1:29 pm	Training and testing	20 min	`1c96cad9`
3:06 pm	Training and testing	8 min	`e344c68b`
6:29 pm	Call for service	9 min	`5df33798`

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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