drone flights over Wichita that day.

12:06 am

first takeoff; the last was at 6:22 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 17 times on Wednesday 8 October 2025, the first at 12:06 am and the last at 6:22 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

17 drawable flights of 17. 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

Call for service65%
Training and testing12%
Search12%
Traffic and crashes12%

Flights, in order

17 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
12:06 am	Call for service	4 min	`028eba39`
1:55 am	Training and testing	17 min	`6e1327b3`
6:44 am	Call for service	14 min	`f86c3006`
8:23 am	Call for service	7 min	`dda8cb21`
9:11 am	Call for service	17 min	`52c428a2`
9:50 am	Call for service	21 min	`fa015cf3`
9:51 am	Search	5 min	`e7009718`
10:40 am	Call for service	21 min	`98794cb6`
11:53 am	Call for service	9 min	`c40a60ea`
12:09 pm	Call for service	20 min	`27dd60bb`
12:31 pm	Call for service	11 min	`87d1bcab`
1:41 pm	Call for service	21 min	`2c85490c`
2:00 pm	Training and testing	14 min	`a8ee29db`
3:01 pm	Traffic and crashes	15 min	`0bd378ea`
3:19 pm	Traffic and crashes	3 min	`69415053`
3:58 pm	Call for service	21 min	`139430af`
6:22 pm	Search	7 min	`63c4d6a7`

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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