drone flights over Wichita that day.

12:47 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:38 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 14 times on Saturday 25 July 2026, the first at 12:47 am and the last at 11:38 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

14 drawable flights of 14. 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

Call for service71%
Events21%
Training and testing7%

Flights, in order

14 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
12:47 am	Call for service	8 min	`67436c2e`
1:21 am	Call for service	22 min	`4a81e02a`
10:54 am	Call for service	23 min	`83cb63b6`
11:18 am	Call for service	24 min	`5fbad4ab`
12:08 pm	Call for service	3 min	`7672dc9b`
8:47 pm	Training and testing	5 min	`813ea594`
9:12 pm	Call for service	11 min	`282e9e06`
9:29 pm	Call for service	8 min	`3d8bdf2f`
9:38 pm	Call for service	16 min	`10e9298f`
9:58 pm	Call for service	9 min	`305f346e`
10:26 pm	Call for service	11 min	`2a07e299`
11:06 pm	Events	18 min	`1d0be703`
11:27 pm	Events	3 min	`6984b0ed`
11:38 pm	Events	16 min	`31e3d4b4`

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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