9
drone flights over Wichita that day.
4:29 am
first takeoff; the last was at 11:38 am.
8 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Wichita police drones flew 9 times on Tuesday 24 February 2026, the first at 4:29 am and the last at 11:38 am 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4:29 am | Call for service | 8 min | 33aa622d |
| 9:21 am | Traffic and crashes | 25 min | ffa63eb3 |
| 9:51 am | Training and testing | 17 min | e891964b |
| 9:58 am | Traffic and crashes | 18 min | 21c7a93e |
| 10:12 am | Training and testing | 16 min | 0a3e0a5d |
| 10:43 am | Training and testing | 3 min | 73384a5b |
| 10:48 am | Training and testing | 6 min | 8fd17b8e |
| 10:55 am | Training and testing | 5 min | 2ca3705e |
| 11:38 am | Call for service | 2 min | 597bdc03 |
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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