8
drone flights over Wichita that day.
8:46 am
first takeoff; the last was at 11:27 am.
12 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Wichita police drones flew 8 times on Tuesday 14 April 2026, the first at 8:46 am and the last at 11:27 am 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
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:46 am | Training and testing | 14 min | 71f769f6 |
| 8:53 am | Training and testing | 13 min | 874c0096 |
| 9:02 am | Training and testing | 11 min | 736fc49c |
| 9:14 am | Training and testing | 10 min | 13550a2c |
| 9:20 am | Training and testing | 14 min | 2be776ed |
| 9:26 am | Training and testing | 14 min | 007feff7 |
| 11:19 am | Training and testing | 6 min | 60ad0ec7 |
| 11:27 am | Training and testing | 4 min | 04bc7b4a |
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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