drone flights over Wichita that day.

12:28 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:51 pm.

19 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 21 times on Saturday 20 June 2026, the first at 12:28 am and the last at 11:51 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

21 drawable flights of 21. 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

Events52%
Call for service48%

Flights, in order

21 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
12:28 am	Events	21 min	`23f08a4f`
12:56 am	Events	20 min	`c26ee46d`
1:16 am	Events	22 min	`73b6bfd8`
1:38 am	Events	21 min	`93c0a96a`
2:05 am	Call for service	17 min	`97c9b380`
2:32 am	Events	22 min	`bb84bb93`
6:19 am	Call for service	17 min	`3b88e61c`
6:37 am	Call for service	13 min	`df5d73d0`
12:19 pm	Events	20 min	`84c0bced`
12:40 pm	Events	23 min	`3e7c58db`
1:04 pm	Events	5 min	`7ad4d8d9`
2:19 pm	Events	19 min	`cf030a7b`
2:59 pm	Events	3 min	`a122f337`
3:41 pm	Events	18 min	`3cdbfa09`
9:37 pm	Call for service	20 min	`a7a7ce19`
9:59 pm	Call for service	21 min	`b45633ad`
10:20 pm	Call for service	12 min	`2d9bbbfb`
10:53 pm	Call for service	19 min	`bfc5ba10`
11:13 pm	Call for service	20 min	`1e549c54`
11:34 pm	Call for service	16 min	`ab89cb2e`
11:51 pm	Call for service	14 min	`fdc48002`

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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