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Wichita, Kansas · one day

Wednesday 1 October 2025

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

21

drone flights over Wichita that day.

2:03 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:55 pm.

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 21 times on Wednesday 1 October 2025, the first at 2:03 am and the last at 8:55 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

21 drawable flights of 21. 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 service81%
  2. Training and testing19%

Flights, in order

21 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
2:03 amCall for service19 mind3010ee8
2:24 amCall for service11 min78a9df59
8:24 amCall for service15 mind716b498
8:45 amCall for service7 min7b7bb4ab
9:55 amCall for service11 min83c3a186
10:26 amTraining and testing16 min55a256d9
10:44 amTraining and testing21 min1fa7f49e
1:48 pmTraining and testing20 min41599009
2:00 pmCall for service22 minc8024407
2:23 pmCall for service23 min60d5c441
2:26 pmCall for service21 min84afd35d
2:43 pmTraining and testing6 minc20ac4dc
4:20 pmCall for service24 minc557556e
5:18 pmCall for service22 mine4bdaa9c
5:33 pmCall for service18 mine6415832
7:15 pmCall for service20 min17f7a37e
7:37 pmCall for service18 min01f150c8
7:56 pmCall for service18 mina52ec81f
8:35 pmCall for service18 min2eb562fd
8:43 pmCall for service5 mine09b9463
8:55 pmCall for service16 min235e2502

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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