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Wichita, Kansas · one day

Wednesday 24 September 2025

10 drone flights from Wichita Police Department's published record.

10

drone flights over Wichita that day.

7:43 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:13 pm.

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 10 times on Wednesday 24 September 2025, the first at 7:43 am and the last at 8:13 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

  1. Call for service60%
  2. Search30%
  3. Training and testing10%

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)PurposeAirborneFlight
7:43 amCall for service22 min4966bffd
8:06 amCall for service20 min0965abbf
9:57 amTraining and testing17 mindf41685d
10:23 amCall for service22 min52dacf71
11:18 amCall for service20 min844d5d9d
1:39 pmCall for service13 mincf0ba518
1:44 pmCall for service19 min1a6ae014
7:37 pmSearch17 min6b65b24b
7:57 pmSearch14 minb261de1b
8:13 pmSearch10 min07b76ce8

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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