9
drone flights over Wichita that day.
12:10 am
first takeoff; the last was at 8:00 pm.
16 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Wichita police drones flew 9 times on Thursday 16 July 2026, the first at 12:10 am and the last at 8:00 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:10 am | Call for service | 11 min | 96f16221 |
| 6:38 am | Call for service | 6 min | 47ee3fe4 |
| 11:31 am | Call for service | 17 min | 674a84ab |
| 12:43 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 66d9f9d0 |
| 1:18 pm | Call for service | 17 min | 01410cf3 |
| 2:50 pm | Call for service | 16 min | f29506d3 |
| 4:52 pm | Call for service | 15 min | 744c4c5a |
| 5:32 pm | Call for service | 19 min | 2e37da82 |
| 8:00 pm | Call for service | 16 min | dacc5954 |
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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