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Wichita, Kansas · one day

Wednesday 1 July 2026

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

38

drone flights over Wichita that day.

3:34 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:59 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 38 times on Wednesday 1 July 2026, the first at 3:34 am and the last at 11:59 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

38 drawable flights of 38. 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. Training and testing34%
  2. Call for service32%
  3. Events29%
  4. Search3%
  5. Not stated3%

Flights, in order

38 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
3:34 amSearch12 min8c6d64e0
8:49 amTraining and testing14 minb28d6fd0
9:08 amTraining and testing15 min5ddc0184
9:24 amNot stated3 min91067677
9:29 amTraining and testing2 min5cd68ebb
9:32 amTraining and testing34 s89b8fffe
10:11 amTraining and testing3 min516ee4e9
10:16 amTraining and testing9 min934545fb
10:30 amTraining and testing17 min1c438c22
10:59 amTraining and testing43 s2d41f130
11:25 amCall for service15 min7a0753e9
12:18 pmTraining and testing16 minbd5d04a6
12:26 pmTraining and testing11 mind7b8cbd6
12:48 pmTraining and testing38 se906032b
1:23 pmCall for service17 min44501c69
1:42 pmCall for service7 min35d4ab55
1:51 pmCall for service13 min3fad77f3
2:08 pmCall for service19 minb097e910
2:33 pmCall for service19 min5b84c38f
2:53 pmCall for service14 min3ee683c7
3:08 pmCall for service15 minbe689b39
3:28 pmTraining and testing10 min553c6610
4:08 pmEvents14 min5e2a1d16
4:11 pmCall for service6 min8552781e
6:03 pmEvents21 min892c98a8
6:33 pmEvents19 min788d6e4f
6:55 pmEvents20 min64011f79
7:16 pmEvents21 min7bf7b85f
7:41 pmEvents22 min60a02283
8:04 pmEvents22 min52f861b6
8:28 pmEvents21 min454fa643
8:50 pmEvents22 mine9ac534c
9:13 pmEvents21 min5f8e88d1
9:34 pmEvents15 mine081b738
9:51 pmCall for service11 min34629c80
10:19 pmTraining and testing17 min85407f0b
11:42 pmCall for service12 min8d1c45ed
11:59 pmCall for service13 mind8702786

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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