drone flights over Wichita that day.

1:42 am

first takeoff; the last was at 3:19 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 10 times on Wednesday 27 August 2025, the first at 1:42 am and the last at 3:19 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

10 drawable flights of 10. 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 testing90%
Events10%

Flights, in order

10 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
1:42 am	Training and testing	16 min	`594f5b9a`
6:18 am	Training and testing	16 min	`5478da13`
8:31 am	Training and testing	14 min	`637e45f5`
10:59 am	Training and testing	43 s	`e4242d85`
11:27 am	Training and testing	1 min 07 s	`82d70b46`
11:48 am	Events	1 min 48 s	`58c597ef`
11:58 am	Training and testing	15 min	`ea0ec754`
12:16 pm	Training and testing	9 min	`6553697a`
12:27 pm	Training and testing	12 min	`d7644ec5`
3:19 pm	Training and testing	10 min	`ae38ca96`

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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