7
drone flights over Wichita that day.
4:07 am
first takeoff; the last was at 8:18 pm.
11 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Wichita police drones flew 7 times on Thursday 16 October 2025, the first at 4:07 am and the last at 8:18 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4:07 am | Call for service | 11 min | 10db2a6e |
| 9:10 am | Training and testing | 14 min | 4a1ffef2 |
| 10:16 am | Training and testing | 10 min | 979e2052 |
| 1:13 pm | Training and testing | 9 min | a5d46b93 |
| 7:46 pm | Search | 12 min | 6a5e9504 |
| 8:03 pm | Search | 14 min | f07e6db8 |
| 8:18 pm | Search | 11 min | de9728e4 |
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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