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Wichita, Kansas · one day

Wednesday 13 May 2026

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

46

drone flights over Wichita that day.

12:15 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:57 pm.

20 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 46 times on Wednesday 13 May 2026, the first at 12:15 am and the last at 9:57 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

46 drawable flights of 46. 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. Search46%
  2. Events30%
  3. Call for service13%
  4. Traffic and crashes7%
  5. Not stated4%

Flights, in order

46 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
12:15 amSearch24 minac616656
12:19 amSearch18 minddc54d50
12:39 amSearch12 minc4a59359
12:44 amSearch20 minc229b9b8
12:53 amSearch21 minfeec3497
1:05 amSearch21 mind04a311f
1:12 amSearch21 min95401157
1:15 amSearch15 min7fc2bf13
1:25 amSearch20 min84259739
1:33 amSearch21 min76c70e42
1:45 amSearch21 min6fadfc87
1:55 amSearch19 minf96bdba6
2:05 amSearch21 mindf8f47c6
2:13 amSearch20 min20e021fe
2:26 amSearch23 min4d5765c2
2:33 amCall for service12 minbbbb3b57
2:44 amSearch7 sebaad888
2:45 amSearch5 minc878958c
7:37 amCall for service12 min9687532a
7:54 amCall for service19 minca237f29
8:19 amCall for service14 min702df225
8:29 amSearch21 min56826f6f
8:52 amSearch23 min98de3920
10:13 amSearch20 min4c4768a2
10:21 amEvents25 min3b630d7c
10:35 amSearch10 min63db394e
10:37 amEvents25 minbe09af98
10:57 amEvents26 min98b3885a
11:16 amEvents9 minf3a0b25d
12:21 pmCall for service13 min2c2a77fe
1:15 pmCall for service4 minac07e852
5:14 pmEvents21 min3e8c5737
5:39 pmNot stated22 minc576393c
5:59 pmEvents21 min57ec4609
6:20 pmEvents23 mind0c40de5
6:41 pmEvents23 minfaf73326
7:03 pmEvents23 minf0cd3cae
7:06 pmEvents46 sfc72ce13
7:24 pmEvents21 min9001c757
7:45 pmNot stated24 min53e8d55e
8:06 pmEvents20 mine9ee6410
8:23 pmEvents21 min30edeb45
8:41 pmEvents21 min9bfa596f
9:31 pmTraffic and crashes1 min 40 s341ac9cc
9:39 pmTraffic and crashes16 min83417c3b
9:57 pmTraffic and crashes11 min9f7e43f2

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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