drone flights over Wichita that day.

12:15 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:54 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 30 times on Saturday 9 May 2026, the first at 12:15 am and the last at 11:54 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

30 drawable flights of 30. 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

Events47%
Traffic and crashes17%
Call for service13%
Other13%
Search7%
Training and testing3%

Flights, in order

30 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
12:15 am	Call for service	18 min	`50b0476f`
12:35 am	Events	11 min	`96406120`
12:37 am	Call for service	14 min	`bb697fb9`
12:47 am	Events	21 min	`190fbec6`
1:11 am	Events	19 min	`2c67b581`
1:32 am	Events	18 min	`b0c74eb6`
1:50 am	Traffic and crashes	16 min	`e8b1915c`
1:52 am	Events	21 min	`86916084`
2:09 am	Traffic and crashes	18 min	`b211de2b`
2:31 am	Traffic and crashes	10 min	`3f43848b`
2:52 pm	Events	6 min	`54e934d9`
3:25 pm	Events	7 min	`24a5a07a`
3:26 pm	Traffic and crashes	24 min	`c0db974b`
3:54 pm	Traffic and crashes	4 min	`d8d6d9d3`
4:28 pm	Events	10 min	`f5b8065b`
5:21 pm	Events	24 min	`4564dadd`
6:29 pm	Events	25 min	`a5a6ebe1`
7:13 pm	Events	25 min	`4b45dd98`
8:49 pm	Search	8 min	`96bb4b4f`
9:15 pm	Other	8 min	`f99bc0d1`
9:21 pm	Events	19 min	`dc58cb0b`
9:37 pm	Training and testing	3 min	`8f3ab5d8`
9:43 pm	Events	20 min	`8e0ba8a6`
10:05 pm	Events	15 min	`487f38b6`
10:29 pm	Other	14 min	`8909b9ac`
10:52 pm	Call for service	8 min	`27440222`
11:01 pm	Other	13 min	`6ec14840`
11:18 pm	Other	8 min	`7218e73d`
11:31 pm	Search	20 min	`8f59dea1`
11:54 pm	Call for service	8 min	`ea3abb91`

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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