9
drone flights over Wichita that day.
2:32 am
first takeoff; the last was at 9:52 pm.
14 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Wichita police drones flew 9 times on Thursday 9 April 2026, the first at 2:32 am and the last at 9:52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2:32 am | Training and testing | 6 min | 44fb9e95 |
| 7:39 am | Training and testing | 16 min | e2165f00 |
| 7:50 am | Training and testing | 14 min | 7ab8909c |
| 7:56 am | Training and testing | 14 min | 68d561fa |
| 8:16 am | Training and testing | 3 min | 4d091732 |
| 8:26 am | Training and testing | 14 min | 41f2fb62 |
| 9:42 am | Training and testing | 14 min | 8d08ffa8 |
| 8:36 pm | Search | 9 min | 3c8f858a |
| 9:52 pm | Search | 16 min | a870423d |
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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