8
drone flights over Wichita that day.
8:26 am
first takeoff; the last was at 8:41 pm.
25 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Wichita police drones flew 8 times on Sunday 1 February 2026, the first at 8:26 am and the last at 8:41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:26 am | Search | 26 min | de113b0c |
| 8:55 am | Search | 25 min | e2a790c1 |
| 8:57 am | Search | 24 min | 9ade47cb |
| 9:22 am | Search | 25 min | d70c7592 |
| 9:23 am | Search | 26 min | 022bb609 |
| 9:50 am | Search | 24 min | a7b4229d |
| 9:59 am | Not stated | 25 min | 725c23a0 |
| 8:41 pm | Call for service | 16 min | c1b87e1b |
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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