7
drone flights over Wichita that day.
2:18 am
first takeoff; the last was at 10:24 pm.
8 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Wichita police drones flew 7 times on Thursday 5 February 2026, the first at 2:18 am and the last at 10:24 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
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2:18 am | Call for service | 5 min | fb14c3cc |
| 11:44 am | Call for service | 19 min | e6bf026c |
| 3:01 pm | Search | 21 min | 027a2175 |
| 3:23 pm | Call for service | 21 min | 4d57e737 |
| 3:52 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 56 s | e7f958b5 |
| 4:21 pm | Training and testing | 7 min | fbdc520b |
| 10:24 pm | Search | 8 min | 8141184e |
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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