4
drone flights over Wichita that day.
4:14 am
first takeoff; the last was at 10:38 am.
22 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Wichita police drones flew 4 times on Sunday 21 December 2025, the first at 4:14 am and the last at 10:38 am CST, by Wichita Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CST.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
4 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 (CST) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4:14 am | Call for service | 15 min | d591f65b |
| 9:07 am | Call for service | 24 min | 191ad7f9 |
| 10:12 am | Call for service | 25 min | 2ca1df6d |
| 10:38 am | Call for service | 21 min | 9a6a8eed |
How this page is made
- Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
- 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 committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
- Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
- A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.
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