drone flights over Wichita that day.

1:32 am

first takeoff; the last was at 2:01 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 29 times on Tuesday 3 February 2026, the first at 1:32 am and the last at 2:01 pm CST, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

29 drawable flights of 29. 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Training and testing76%
Call for service14%
Events7%
Not stated3%

Flights, in order

29 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
1:32 am	Call for service	20 min	`16badea8`
1:54 am	Call for service	19 min	`702f92c1`
2:14 am	Call for service	20 min	`fc5733c8`
9:07 am	Training and testing	11 min	`9fb074f2`
9:23 am	Training and testing	7 min	`583d195d`
9:32 am	Training and testing	6 min	`4d1f2199`
9:40 am	Training and testing	7 min	`2d9aeabe`
9:48 am	Training and testing	37 s	`7f110f78`
9:51 am	Training and testing	8 min	`bdb7ebd6`
10:01 am	Training and testing	7 min	`2e1d3e20`
10:10 am	Training and testing	8 min	`6047d6c5`
10:20 am	Training and testing	9 min	`a673d7e2`
10:31 am	Training and testing	8 min	`67746885`
10:40 am	Not stated	11 min	`75fe847f`
10:51 am	Training and testing	12 min	`e43444cc`
11:04 am	Training and testing	6 min	`c5529320`
11:12 am	Training and testing	14 min	`90d4312b`
11:27 am	Training and testing	5 min	`1f540db3`
11:37 am	Training and testing	8 min	`a4ff8f04`
11:47 am	Training and testing	9 min	`f4d03b5f`
11:57 am	Training and testing	9 min	`6cb0a5a7`
12:14 pm	Training and testing	6 min	`ed43ecf5`
12:21 pm	Training and testing	4 min	`5257c2b0`
12:26 pm	Training and testing	3 min	`ae17957e`
12:34 pm	Training and testing	4 min	`d8dd5d7e`
12:40 pm	Training and testing	2 min	`aa6afb05`
1:35 pm	Events	25 min	`2b94bd51`
1:46 pm	Call for service	18 min	`8abb455c`
2:01 pm	Events	25 min	`b08f28d2`

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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