9
drone flights over Wichita that day.
3:41 am
first takeoff; the last was at 10:34 pm.
19 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Wichita police drones flew 9 times on Tuesday 17 March 2026, the first at 3:41 am and the last at 10:34 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CDT.
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 (CDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3:41 am | Call for service | 18 min | efdf3a3b |
| 4:01 am | Call for service | 11 min | 70b32f59 |
| 5:59 am | Call for service | 18 min | 232133a9 |
| 10:10 am | Search | 6 min | 0df1d4bd |
| 11:37 am | Training and testing | 19 min | 5df737dd |
| 2:44 pm | Call for service | 23 min | 6b335ea4 |
| 7:10 pm | Search | 22 min | ed048a6d |
| 10:11 pm | Search | 21 min | abe8f69e |
| 10:34 pm | Search | 23 min | bef0eb02 |
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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