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Wichita, Kansas · one day

Saturday 27 September 2025

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

20

drone flights over Wichita that day.

1:03 am

first takeoff; the last was at 4:22 pm.

22 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 20 times on Saturday 27 September 2025, the first at 1:03 am and the last at 4:22 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

  1. Events80%
  2. Call for service10%
  3. Not stated5%
  4. Training and testing5%

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)PurposeAirborneFlight
1:03 amCall for service10 min2448a271
1:26 amEvents14 min966a1b7b
1:42 amEvents18 min24c890ae
4:24 amNot stated7 minbea752e5
4:56 amCall for service9 min298bde8d
11:46 amEvents23 minba94731c
12:10 pmEvents26 min2d319c2e
12:32 pmEvents21 min9a8dc93b
12:43 pmTraining and testing5 min37fe8b2c
12:51 pmEvents21 min49a25084
1:12 pmEvents23 minff9b5cd1
1:31 pmEvents22 min2180dfcc
1:52 pmEvents23 mind96888ab
2:13 pmEvents25 min369e950e
2:34 pmEvents22 minc579010c
2:55 pmEvents25 minca09c776
3:18 pmEvents23 mindc4f03ee
3:40 pmEvents23 min8dc2479c
4:00 pmEvents21 minac4c3b59
4:22 pmEvents10 min72f23e49

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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