8
drone flights over Wichita that day.
10:37 am
first takeoff; the last was at 3:53 pm.
17 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Wichita police drones flew 8 times on Monday 19 January 2026, the first at 10:37 am and the last at 3:53 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
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:37 am | Training and testing | 4 min | 7f7eaf65 |
| 11:18 am | Call for service | 18 min | d9c03d9c |
| 1:00 pm | Call for service | 16 min | 783157ed |
| 1:25 pm | Call for service | 10 min | 615d2289 |
| 2:06 pm | Call for service | 20 min | c98becae |
| 2:27 pm | Call for service | 16 min | c5795092 |
| 3:02 pm | Call for service | 21 min | 62f31142 |
| 3:53 pm | Call for service | 17 min | 3ab133af |
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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