9
drone flights over Wichita that day.
8:00 am
first takeoff; the last was at 5:23 pm.
24 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Wichita police drones flew 9 times on Wednesday 28 January 2026, the first at 8:00 am and the last at 5:23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Not stated | 7 min | c7ddadc0 |
| 11:43 am | Events | 26 min | 20f9cf53 |
| 12:11 pm | Events | 25 min | 4fec3a99 |
| 12:38 pm | Events | 25 min | 5b21a2c7 |
| 1:05 pm | Events | 18 min | 98a9e6de |
| 1:42 pm | Events | 25 min | 21de580d |
| 2:14 pm | Events | 24 min | 0136b511 |
| 2:39 pm | Events | 14 min | 53dce5e5 |
| 5:23 pm | Events | 4 min | 0837d80a |
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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