drone flights over Wichita that day.

12:00 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:40 pm.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 20 times on Sunday 26 July 2026, the first at 12:00 am and the last at 11:40 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

20 drawable flights of 20. 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

Events60%
Call for service35%
Search5%

Flights, in order

20 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
12:00 am	Call for service	11 min	`af08ec37`
12:17 am	Call for service	15 min	`6f86ab10`
12:38 am	Call for service	9 min	`b06b2431`
1:06 am	Call for service	6 min	`48e96fd2`
1:21 am	Events	11 min	`da5a1111`
1:33 am	Events	18 min	`70f53a89`
1:55 am	Events	10 min	`5af611ee`
2:27 am	Events	12 min	`ea2ea73f`
2:58 am	Call for service	16 min	`f62b3fe4`
3:15 am	Call for service	19 min	`4185c1ce`
3:39 am	Call for service	18 min	`c9725941`
2:24 pm	Search	18 min	`71f7e53a`
8:08 pm	Events	20 min	`e73872d0`
8:48 pm	Events	21 min	`78a44ae1`
9:22 pm	Events	18 min	`ab8f8ede`
9:42 pm	Events	12 min	`22fcd748`
10:10 pm	Events	15 min	`2fb617bd`
10:38 pm	Events	18 min	`4eeb6013`
11:16 pm	Events	19 min	`c9899bfe`
11:40 pm	Events	13 min	`5ea7b827`

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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