9
drone flights over Wichita that day.
3:29 am
first takeoff; the last was at 11:24 pm.
4 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Wichita police drones flew 9 times on Wednesday 14 January 2026, the first at 3:29 am and the last at 11:24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3:29 am | Training and testing | 9 min | e5c315d6 |
| 10:16 am | Training and testing | 4 min | c12bb94a |
| 11:06 am | Other | 2 min | 5b2e9fa5 |
| 12:14 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 10 s | fb11f291 |
| 12:35 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 33 s | 1de50494 |
| 12:43 pm | Training and testing | 7 min | 65732b4a |
| 1:15 pm | Training and testing | 11 min | 6d43b156 |
| 10:58 pm | Call for service | 4 min | 0a5b078d |
| 11:24 pm | Call for service | 9 min | 9020d8e4 |
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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