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Wichita, Kansas · one day

Thursday 22 January 2026

28 drone flights from Wichita Police Department's published record.

28

drone flights over Wichita that day.

10:09 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:52 pm.

23 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 28 times on Thursday 22 January 2026, the first at 10:09 am and the last at 11:52 pm CST, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

28 drawable flights of 28. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, CST.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Events75%
  2. Call for service18%
  3. Training and testing7%

Flights, in order

28 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)PurposeAirborneFlight
10:09 amEvents28 min1fb18eab
10:10 amEvents24 min866432c7
10:35 amEvents25 mindeb54555
10:39 amEvents25 min39c4acee
11:02 amEvents24 minf721c7e9
11:06 amEvents24 minb7ee47eb
11:28 amEvents24 minb8a679d1
11:32 amEvents29 min5eebab40
12:02 pmEvents13 min94aa66da
1:59 pmEvents23 min7fa6ac0b
2:09 pmEvents24 mina45e4eb2
2:23 pmEvents26 mincac12483
2:34 pmEvents28 min94d87252
2:52 pmEvents23 min0de789d9
3:03 pmEvents22 min356b9d48
3:17 pmEvents23 min28244f13
3:27 pmEvents23 min4bc2b567
3:42 pmEvents21 min987ebde2
3:51 pmEvents22 min2c749d61
4:06 pmEvents27 min4ac399e7
4:18 pmEvents20 mina888fbc8
5:23 pmTraining and testing5 min87054dd1
5:33 pmTraining and testing3 minb6cb9479
11:12 pmCall for service16 minee7ca70f
11:27 pmCall for service18 min7afb56e3
11:36 pmCall for service18 min6f88a249
11:43 pmCall for service20 min0b522e39
11:52 pmCall for service19 min6088b990

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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