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Wichita, Kansas · one day

Thursday 9 July 2026

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

54

drone flights over Wichita that day.

12:25 am

first takeoff; the last was at 5:30 pm.

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 54 times on Thursday 9 July 2026, the first at 12:25 am and the last at 5:30 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

54 drawable flights of 54. 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. Call for service89%
  2. Not stated7%
  3. Training and testing2%
  4. Traffic and crashes2%

Flights, in order

54 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
12:25 amTraining and testing9 min97797471
4:36 amCall for service17 mina47cfd2d
5:05 amCall for service18 min66f66e75
5:23 amNot stated17 min8f0729f5
5:39 amCall for service19 min4749b94c
5:56 amNot stated13 mine2fd1c1d
6:31 amCall for service21 min857b7e23
6:51 amCall for service24 minff3c0281
7:14 amCall for service16 minfe289978
7:29 amCall for service25 min77a41e01
7:52 amCall for service23 min2c4715b3
8:13 amCall for service23 minebe06ff6
8:35 amCall for service25 minc68bcc00
8:59 amNot stated6 min28641c39
9:03 amCall for service6 min09439b50
9:05 amCall for service4 minc765c52c
9:08 amCall for service23 min2d8f24e5
9:30 amCall for service23 min1ec7ed4f
9:51 amCall for service22 min1b810d8f
10:06 amCall for service17 min3a8c2543
10:11 amCall for service22 min4b29db05
10:32 amTraffic and crashes15 min725b0a99
10:32 amCall for service23 minc7dd0324
10:35 amCall for service10 min8d02a847
10:53 amCall for service24 min935d4425
11:15 amCall for service51 sbeec9bec
11:15 amCall for service4 mina50e03a3
11:16 amCall for service18 min074f2d66
11:22 amCall for service5 min6e244132
11:33 amCall for service24 min2269a80e
11:55 amCall for service23 min3620237d
12:16 pmCall for service24 min86ded004
12:33 pmCall for service5 minfe6c39ac
12:41 pmCall for service24 min50c9bb3f
12:47 pmCall for service6 minec754890
1:01 pmCall for service6 minc3fb4e5a
1:13 pmNot stated12 min181e1cdf
1:19 pmCall for service12 min1e367d01
1:22 pmCall for service22 min3612b881
1:41 pmCall for service22 min6c52901c
2:02 pmCall for service26 minf18ccb9a
2:11 pmCall for service4 minfe87b0bc
2:22 pmCall for service18 min1335b489
2:26 pmCall for service23 minceb75b6f
2:37 pmCall for service24 minc49fdb19
2:46 pmCall for service22 minfa31a237
2:48 pmCall for service10 min86969c3e
3:05 pmCall for service24 min2465ca80
3:20 pmCall for service24 min73e01443
3:27 pmCall for service23 minff0d6577
3:46 pmCall for service17 minc19866c5
3:47 pmCall for service14 min2bc941db
5:19 pmCall for service10 min4cdf4c81
5:30 pmCall for service14 mina7586f76

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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