drone flights over Wichita that day.

12:21 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:26 pm.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 13 times on Sunday 2 August 2026, the first at 12:21 am and the last at 10:26 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

13 drawable flights of 13. 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 service85%
Training and testing8%
Events8%

Flights, in order

13 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
12:21 am	Call for service	15 min	`50a054be`
12:39 am	Call for service	14 min	`92f4fbe3`
1:08 am	Training and testing	9 min	`02cc2ced`
1:25 am	Call for service	16 min	`06a79344`
1:47 am	Events	20 min	`4bb92e28`
2:07 am	Call for service	5 min	`e6e3d046`
2:24 am	Call for service	11 min	`9bbb5c16`
8:40 pm	Call for service	20 min	`23b41633`
9:02 pm	Call for service	20 min	`c7611e92`
9:23 pm	Call for service	18 min	`2346d942`
9:43 pm	Call for service	19 min	`f10fbe28`
10:07 pm	Call for service	18 min	`5976d047`
10:26 pm	Call for service	3 min	`6d4d9907`

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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