9
drone flights over Wichita that day.
3:55 am
first takeoff; the last was at 2:45 pm.
9 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Wichita police drones flew 9 times on Monday 12 January 2026, the first at 3:55 am and the last at 2:45 pm 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
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3:55 am | Call for service | 18 min | f95f4602 |
| 11:53 am | Call for service | 11 min | ecddbc89 |
| 12:11 pm | Call for service | 22 min | c12550af |
| 12:36 pm | Call for service | 1 min 31 s | 49f41dad |
| 1:03 pm | Call for service | 8 min | 1ae9724a |
| 1:12 pm | Call for service | 8 min | 4845390f |
| 1:59 pm | Call for service | 21 min | 2839a394 |
| 2:33 pm | Call for service | 9 min | 9567bac1 |
| 2:45 pm | Call for service | 2 min | 318668b9 |
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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