drone flights over Wichita that day.

9:58 am

first takeoff; the last was at 1:15 pm.

21 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 20 times on Saturday 13 September 2025, the first at 9:58 am and the last at 1:15 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

20 drawable flights of 20. 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

Events85%
Training and testing10%
Not stated5%

Flights, in order

20 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
9:58 am	Events	5 min	`4fc0e763`
10:00 am	Events	22 min	`8748d1f1`
10:04 am	Events	21 min	`e7d803ba`
10:05 am	Not stated	26 min	`bcb61bfc`
10:24 am	Events	21 min	`38e264a6`
10:28 am	Events	23 min	`48b58124`
10:34 am	Events	22 min	`2ff11b0a`
10:53 am	Events	23 min	`2bea3c69`
10:57 am	Events	21 min	`f8621201`
10:58 am	Events	22 min	`c70e817d`
11:17 am	Events	24 min	`643ae73c`
11:20 am	Events	24 min	`77b64014`
11:22 am	Events	20 min	`083019e6`
11:42 am	Events	25 min	`fc339346`
11:46 am	Events	15 min	`6d929ad3`
11:57 am	Events	21 min	`40b9bba7`
12:09 pm	Events	4 min	`3a8ac441`
12:09 pm	Events	1 min 03 s	`9e31aeef`
12:42 pm	Training and testing	4 min	`cc06b4b1`
1:15 pm	Training and testing	6 min	`f5a4c5d6`

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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