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Wichita, Kansas · one day

Wednesday 22 July 2026

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

18

drone flights over Wichita that day.

11:11 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:45 pm.

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 18 times on Wednesday 22 July 2026, the first at 11:11 am and the last at 11:45 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

18 drawable flights of 18. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service83%
  2. Not stated11%
  3. Training and testing6%

Flights, in order

18 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
11:11 amCall for service18 mina3cc5fbb
12:23 pmCall for service5 min0d860cba
1:54 pmCall for service14 min97508ed5
3:00 pmCall for service17 min6e94656d
3:38 pmCall for service16 mincc07fbfc
3:58 pmCall for service16 min582a8c11
4:16 pmCall for service19 minea128efe
4:35 pmCall for service19 minf2945ee6
4:56 pmCall for service16 minc0a7c2d2
5:12 pmCall for service17 mincf4224e2
6:12 pmTraining and testing1 min 25 s27e348cd
6:16 pmNot stated12 min4423b70b
6:30 pmNot stated18 minab1a9538
10:35 pmCall for service21 mincef2647e
10:58 pmCall for service22 mind62d577a
11:22 pmCall for service24 min48283c08
11:23 pmCall for service18 min02688f95
11:45 pmCall for service20 min595880d8

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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