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Wichita, Kansas · one day

Saturday 22 August 2026

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

38

drone flights over Wichita that day.

12:49 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:54 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 38 times on Saturday 22 August 2026, the first at 12:49 am and the last at 11:54 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

38 drawable flights of 38. 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

  1. Call for service61%
  2. Events29%
  3. Training and testing5%
  4. Search5%

Flights, in order

38 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
12:49 amEvents19 min2d74bce6
1:08 amEvents21 min61444a81
1:30 amEvents19 min1ea32043
1:53 amEvents14 min21ab92af
2:10 amCall for service16 min94cb8185
2:28 amCall for service6 min6880a305
4:25 amCall for service3 minb83c9e1f
1:42 pmTraining and testing8 min33a6644e
2:31 pmCall for service14 min64c7ce32
2:46 pmCall for service15 min26a453f4
3:13 pmCall for service14 mina0830fe6
3:40 pmCall for service9 min4d66065f
4:07 pmCall for service17 min9a35401b
4:25 pmCall for service10 min8ac40536
4:45 pmCall for service10 minb441039d
5:00 pmCall for service8 min4d8ba1cd
5:20 pmCall for service14 min1c3d03a4
5:27 pmCall for service5 min5b7af4ee
5:34 pmCall for service7 minf101600b
6:05 pmSearch15 min706b151d
6:10 pmCall for service12 min6f40030e
6:22 pmSearch10 min406599c1
6:42 pmEvents9 minb0098f33
7:08 pmCall for service12 min76805e71
8:02 pmCall for service10 minf3fc900d
8:04 pmEvents17 min0637b8cf
8:10 pmCall for service9 min3fdd9729
8:13 pmCall for service9 min2933bcf6
8:57 pmEvents18 minb2b9c178
9:36 pmEvents13 min195ff4f2
9:57 pmEvents15 min24260e63
10:35 pmCall for service16 min7e3e1083
10:53 pmCall for service10 min13d6e4a9
11:13 pmEvents6 min5b84c4b4
11:23 pmCall for service5 min671a56b7
11:28 pmTraining and testing2 mina775818f
11:30 pmCall for service10 min805a6b2d
11:54 pmEvents12 min683b6ac0

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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