8
drone flights over Wichita that day.
4:38 am
first takeoff; the last was at 2:45 pm.
10 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Wichita police drones flew 8 times on Friday 22 August 2025, the first at 4:38 am and the last at 2:45 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
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4:38 am | Call for service | 16 min | 54fa0649 |
| 4:56 am | Call for service | 14 min | ec7a5a43 |
| 1:05 pm | Training and testing | 17 min | 9d7ac13b |
| 2:33 pm | Training and testing | 26 s | 3c839b8e |
| 2:34 pm | Training and testing | 7 min | 6172af26 |
| 2:35 pm | Call for service | 4 min | b16d3af5 |
| 2:43 pm | Training and testing | 8 min | dc3a5d21 |
| 2:45 pm | Training and testing | 11 min | b730630f |
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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