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Wichita, Kansas · one day

Saturday 18 July 2026

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

45

drone flights over Wichita that day.

1:27 am

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

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 45 times on Saturday 18 July 2026, the first at 1:27 am and the last at 11:59 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

45 drawable flights of 45. 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. Events62%
  2. Call for service36%
  3. Not stated2%

Flights, in order

45 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
1:27 amEvents21 minc17282fc
1:50 amEvents19 min73cf09d2
2:47 amCall for service16 min8a2f7fae
4:03 amCall for service6 mind1941226
3:20 pmCall for service19 min14ffa335
3:23 pmEvents12 min11af51da
3:41 pmCall for service11 min31615cc8
4:00 pmEvents14 min198d801d
4:19 pmEvents10 min3a079354
4:33 pmEvents20 min17f8197e
5:09 pmEvents7 min400aa081
5:24 pmEvents14 min3067a419
5:34 pmEvents24 min8f5a51fb
6:22 pmEvents22 min48496cd5
7:13 pmEvents23 min881ed91b
7:20 pmCall for service18 min59da95cf
7:51 pmEvents24 min8f41eb12
7:52 pmEvents18 min15921c84
8:11 pmEvents14 min23838491
8:41 pmEvents18 min8a66657d
8:42 pmEvents23 minccf92d0b
8:54 pmCall for service22 min5f7e1139
8:58 pmEvents16 min8e61e008
9:11 pmEvents19 min709e302f
9:18 pmCall for service18 min5d9d62aa
9:19 pmEvents20 min83e0bf0e
9:30 pmEvents15 mine3fe6baa
9:40 pmCall for service13 min7936e4a9
9:41 pmEvents17 min365d15db
9:51 pmEvents18 min0bc8cea7
9:54 pmEvents20 mine9dcb596
9:56 pmNot stated14 min8bbe3258
10:03 pmEvents17 mind5ece383
10:12 pmCall for service20 minc069c00c
10:31 pmCall for service19 minbbe2bf48
10:34 pmEvents18 minbd6e5815
10:35 pmCall for service3 min5172efa9
10:50 pmCall for service20 min3730f46d
11:08 pmCall for service22 minf35b1a28
11:32 pmEvents1 min 56 sa2f7b81b
11:32 pmCall for service18 min64c3f0f9
11:42 pmEvents16 min9281aada
11:48 pmCall for service12 minc9ec7a19
11:51 pmCall for service24 minfb2f6299
11:59 pmEvents11 minad400660

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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