7
drone flights over Wichita that day.
1:45 am
first takeoff; the last was at 8:19 pm.
6 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Wichita police drones flew 7 times on Thursday 21 August 2025, the first at 1:45 am and the last at 8:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:45 am | Call for service | 14 min | 1e22f8fa |
| 11:16 am | Training and testing | 4 min | 15fb6e4d |
| 11:56 am | Training and testing | 6 min | a5d5b510 |
| 1:01 pm | Training and testing | 7 min | 15b7905e |
| 3:24 pm | Training and testing | 6 min | c2c222e9 |
| 3:39 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 48 s | 0dc93edb |
| 8:19 pm | Search | 20 min | 79ea261a |
How this page is made
- Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
- 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 committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
- Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
- A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.
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