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Wichita, Kansas · one day

Thursday 20 August 2026

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

44

drone flights over Wichita that day.

8:12 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:30 pm.

20 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 44 times on Thursday 20 August 2026, the first at 8:12 am and the last at 11:30 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

44 drawable flights of 44. 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 service75%
  2. Events20%
  3. Not stated5%

Flights, in order

44 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
8:12 amCall for service18 minda86d785
8:36 amCall for service16 min9de176cf
8:54 amCall for service18 min705addba
9:12 amCall for service21 min1e048bdf
10:01 amCall for service17 min8e3a6adc
10:18 amCall for service20 min420d9b80
10:33 amCall for service18 mine7f1d640
10:48 amCall for service16 min9106b4e5
11:32 amCall for service20 min7187e8e9
11:54 amCall for service16 minbceecb89
12:49 pmCall for service22 min904f5e32
1:11 pmCall for service17 min460f8ded
1:29 pmCall for service19 minedd4187c
1:44 pmCall for service18 minec2364dc
2:32 pmCall for service15 mine3960efa
3:50 pmCall for service15 min69f3e242
6:25 pmCall for service21 min4df6cbab
6:43 pmEvents20 minc11a3df0
7:03 pmCall for service21 mina88ff6dd
7:14 pmEvents21 minea2bc470
7:25 pmCall for service21 minab42be02
7:39 pmEvents21 mine604b3f2
7:48 pmCall for service13 mindc93a62c
8:02 pmEvents24 min8279f5f6
8:03 pmCall for service18 min23940f14
8:24 pmCall for service16 min06c5546d
8:26 pmEvents26 minb6e7a4fd
8:44 pmCall for service48 s79defe03
8:45 pmCall for service20 min63ebe53e
8:53 pmEvents22 min195cf351
9:06 pmCall for service22 mince0dc5c2
9:15 pmEvents21 minad82e78d
9:30 pmCall for service18 min234e6a07
9:38 pmEvents20 min6507018f
9:50 pmCall for service20 min95dc290f
10:00 pmNot stated21 minbc720e0d
10:11 pmCall for service18 min3d0838bc
10:22 pmNot stated20 min016d22ff
10:30 pmCall for service18 min255e32d8
10:44 pmCall for service23 min96fcdfa1
10:49 pmCall for service23 mind899aa89
11:10 pmEvents18 min07dfebd0
11:13 pmCall for service16 min6eb2fd24
11:30 pmCall for service13 min66ec84b8

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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