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Wichita, Kansas · one day

Sunday 3 May 2026

47 drone flights from Wichita Police Department's published record.

47

drone flights over Wichita that day.

7:00 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:40 pm.

21 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 47 times on Sunday 3 May 2026, the first at 7:00 am and the last at 8:40 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

47 drawable flights of 47. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Events89%
  2. Call for service6%
  3. Training and testing2%
  4. Not stated2%

Flights, in order

47 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)PurposeAirborneFlight
7:00 amEvents22 min1b843191
7:21 amEvents22 min02013dab
7:22 amEvents18 minbec52927
7:41 amEvents20 min43ffdcae
7:43 amEvents16 minfc69b09b
7:59 amEvents22 mind1d03a14
8:04 amEvents20 min4d2cc30f
8:13 amEvents18 min28d38861
8:21 amTraining and testing17 min1da9efbb
8:22 amCall for service17 min83ab07d1
8:26 amEvents19 min0eb3e259
8:34 amEvents23 minabe952a1
8:47 amEvents20 min21d8ae94
9:01 amEvents21 mina28ad84f
9:07 amEvents24 min9c2c8068
9:25 amEvents26 min50cee20e
9:32 amEvents22 minae193497
9:52 amEvents20 minc7a3d838
9:58 amEvents48 sc1a28016
9:59 amEvents21 min76cb7d36
10:14 amEvents21 min2f9325af
10:26 amEvents25 min4b23f9af
10:35 amEvents22 min4bb647fe
10:52 amEvents22 min82dc1c1f
11:54 amEvents20 minb03c0891
11:59 amEvents22 min27f6fd09
12:14 pmEvents26 mined529c1b
12:18 pmEvents24 min4c46d78c
12:42 pmEvents24 min238ae5d3
12:44 pmEvents20 minbae60c13
1:05 pmNot stated22 min189d46f2
1:08 pmEvents21 min10e3e0a8
1:28 pmEvents23 mine49fbdd4
1:30 pmEvents19 min87902e01
1:49 pmEvents22 min46feacb3
1:51 pmEvents23 min4d7c23a0
2:10 pmEvents26 min23b1411b
2:16 pmEvents22 min5ecd81de
2:34 pmEvents21 min5e4e8f38
2:37 pmEvents24 min69326ebd
2:55 pmEvents23 min557363bb
3:00 pmEvents21 min52cf6d28
3:10 pmCall for service6 min20b1c9f3
3:17 pmEvents20 mine861787d
3:19 pmEvents21 mind54f99b4
3:37 pmEvents20 min9a5c6d96
8:40 pmCall for service18 mina64a7d97

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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