9
drone flights over Wichita that day.
10:39 am
first takeoff; the last was at 11:35 pm.
15 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Wichita police drones flew 9 times on Friday 30 January 2026, the first at 10:39 am and the last at 11:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:39 am | Search | 7 min | e4e075fe |
| 5:54 pm | Training and testing | 13 min | 4ab6ba9f |
| 6:16 pm | Call for service | 18 min | d28ff273 |
| 7:00 pm | Call for service | 15 min | ca134ff3 |
| 7:25 pm | Call for service | 5 min | 9cf18c79 |
| 8:16 pm | Call for service | 15 min | 7a223718 |
| 10:30 pm | Events | 17 min | 05d65a8b |
| 11:12 pm | Call for service | 20 min | 331bbf87 |
| 11:35 pm | Call for service | 20 min | 1e7009ea |
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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