drone flights over Wichita that day.

1:47 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:38 pm.

22 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 17 times on Monday 6 April 2026, the first at 1:47 am and the last at 11:38 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

17 drawable flights of 17. 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, CDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Not stated59%
Call for service35%
Training and testing6%

Flights, in order

17 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
1:47 am	Call for service	15 min	`18d31461`
7:48 am	Training and testing	18 min	`b0f4d579`
8:42 am	Call for service	14 min	`713c9cd0`
12:45 pm	Not stated	23 min	`658f43de`
1:03 pm	Not stated	26 min	`c7e8d547`
1:10 pm	Not stated	26 min	`0b553130`
1:34 pm	Not stated	23 min	`669ea811`
1:37 pm	Not stated	28 min	`da293584`
1:59 pm	Not stated	23 min	`2e528200`
2:06 pm	Not stated	25 min	`f5f2c170`
2:23 pm	Not stated	24 min	`41ad2ad5`
2:32 pm	Not stated	22 min	`88630744`
2:50 pm	Not stated	2 min	`bf0df26b`
8:42 pm	Call for service	18 min	`2afeee66`
9:01 pm	Call for service	9 min	`5578ed72`
10:00 pm	Call for service	18 min	`67694e7f`
11:38 pm	Call for service	17 min	`19d03b47`

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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