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Wichita, Kansas · one day

Friday 8 May 2026

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

40

drone flights over Wichita that day.

2:04 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:53 pm.

19 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 40 times on Friday 8 May 2026, the first at 2:04 am and the last at 11:53 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

40 drawable flights of 40. 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

  1. Events42%
  2. Call for service28%
  3. Traffic and crashes12%
  4. Training and testing12%
  5. Not stated5%

Flights, in order

40 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
2:04 amTraffic and crashes17 minab0064a6
2:22 amTraffic and crashes19 min12ca87ca
2:43 amTraffic and crashes18 minadade053
3:03 amTraffic and crashes18 min1d4ac3dd
3:12 amTraining and testing8 min39af237f
3:21 amCall for service20 minae46c3e4
3:24 amTraffic and crashes8 min28acb485
3:43 amCall for service21 min4700ec5e
7:42 amCall for service21 min4f91bd5e
8:04 amCall for service1 min 55 s3b39f41c
8:35 amCall for service11 min28006e6c
8:54 amCall for service15 min36d9a8ec
9:01 amTraining and testing3 minfdd05ae9
9:18 amTraining and testing4 min22a079df
10:32 amTraining and testing3 min636fdfc6
10:50 amCall for service18 minfa1982f8
11:40 amTraining and testing3 min4361297f
2:41 pmNot stated20 minb19b75bc
3:07 pmEvents21 minf553d725
4:31 pmEvents20 min6b939015
4:57 pmEvents22 mine463b534
5:25 pmEvents24 min58c603f6
5:57 pmEvents20 min5598b8c4
6:19 pmEvents22 minb3368460
6:43 pmEvents19 minbad5cc7a
7:06 pmEvents20 min6506a6bd
7:29 pmEvents19 min01944b7f
7:51 pmEvents20 min0b706fcc
8:12 pmEvents21 mineb1743e6
8:35 pmEvents18 minbc617790
8:53 pmEvents18 min918cbba9
9:15 pmEvents17 minfd801b8c
9:34 pmEvents16 mind6938a85
10:04 pmNot stated19 min875b211d
10:20 pmCall for service19 minc5efe081
10:40 pmCall for service19 mincb658649
10:51 pmEvents16 minab3ae992
10:58 pmCall for service7 min06e89d67
11:31 pmEvents21 min8ca4f4ae
11:53 pmCall for service20 min5a6f77a5

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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