drone flights over Wichita that day.

12:01 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:04 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 15 times on Thursday 26 February 2026, the first at 12:01 am and the last at 10:04 pm CST, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

15 drawable flights of 15. 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

Call for service73%
Training and testing20%
Search7%

Flights, in order

15 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
12:01 am	Call for service	9 min	`d95d9cf4`
12:19 am	Call for service	1 min 23 s	`67841a7c`
2:55 am	Call for service	16 min	`2d6ff0b9`
3:13 am	Call for service	13 min	`e8a5103c`
6:00 am	Call for service	14 min	`38c79ee0`
10:05 am	Training and testing	15 min	`5cd951e1`
10:33 am	Call for service	11 min	`dedbfc31`
11:14 am	Call for service	13 min	`7aa52f15`
11:29 am	Call for service	18 min	`fb694ac5`
11:54 am	Call for service	18 min	`c0aadd83`
12:13 pm	Call for service	11 min	`216f331e`
12:29 pm	Call for service	17 min	`bb3f77da`
6:13 pm	Training and testing	23 min	`f598261c`
6:41 pm	Training and testing	6 min	`72c4e01b`
10:04 pm	Search	12 min	`c412b855`

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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