drone flights over Wichita that day.

12:46 am

first takeoff; the last was at 6:41 pm.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 36 times on Tuesday 21 April 2026, the first at 12:46 am and the last at 6:41 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

36 drawable flights of 36. 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

Training and testing33%
Call for service28%
Other28%
Search11%

Flights, in order

36 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
12:46 am	Call for service	16 min	`feab0bbe`
7:36 am	Call for service	19 min	`f97b81ac`
9:13 am	Other	17 min	`354d24b4`
9:42 am	Other	25 min	`48d49d63`
9:56 am	Training and testing	15 min	`fe5ccded`
10:11 am	Other	25 min	`4bdbdfdc`
10:17 am	Training and testing	19 min	`3689ce44`
10:22 am	Training and testing	16 min	`08b72174`
10:40 am	Other	25 min	`e931f784`
10:51 am	Training and testing	3 min	`368da2ea`
11:00 am	Training and testing	2 min	`610c7e28`
11:08 am	Training and testing	2 min	`2d3ceb1c`
11:11 am	Training and testing	11 min	`e2a1c130`
11:24 am	Training and testing	7 min	`cb54e108`
11:25 am	Other	24 min	`b41e3389`
11:32 am	Training and testing	3 min	`ef635ce2`
11:36 am	Training and testing	5 min	`7c0cf944`
11:43 am	Training and testing	3 min	`374f8205`
11:52 am	Call for service	8 min	`a1fdfe7f`
11:55 am	Other	23 min	`1e40955c`
12:01 pm	Call for service	9 min	`26a5fd35`
12:15 pm	Call for service	19 min	`e4fec088`
12:25 pm	Other	24 min	`ad01500e`
12:37 pm	Call for service	15 min	`e71eaf8b`
12:58 pm	Other	23 min	`f6001c60`
1:24 pm	Training and testing	15 min	`826fe8e9`
1:31 pm	Other	5 min	`c60887cc`
1:48 pm	Other	9 min	`768cbecf`
1:59 pm	Call for service	15 min	`b7ef465c`
2:25 pm	Call for service	17 min	`77ad92fd`
3:21 pm	Call for service	14 min	`8a47b1db`
3:55 pm	Call for service	17 min	`558fee7e`
5:52 pm	Search	14 min	`981972c6`
6:06 pm	Search	15 min	`1cacde31`
6:22 pm	Search	17 min	`3d738c26`
6:41 pm	Search	11 min	`1277bccd`

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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