drone flights over Wichita that day.

12:01 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:19 pm.

19 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 10 times on Sunday 16 August 2026, the first at 12:01 am and the last at 7:19 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

10 drawable flights of 10. 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 service60%
Traffic and crashes30%
Events10%

Flights, in order

10 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
12:01 am	Call for service	15 min	`76076d0b`
12:48 am	Call for service	21 min	`bca4e308`
1:09 am	Traffic and crashes	19 min	`35bfe461`
1:31 am	Traffic and crashes	20 min	`5f77a28f`
1:40 am	Call for service	21 min	`dc47bf3c`
1:53 am	Traffic and crashes	10 min	`6685d576`
2:07 am	Call for service	21 min	`703e193f`
2:31 am	Call for service	18 min	`29f67ae3`
6:47 pm	Call for service	18 min	`b98398d3`
7:19 pm	Events	4 min	`fed13a9a`

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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