drone flights over Wichita that day.

12:20 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:42 pm.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 25 times on Sunday 23 August 2026, the first at 12:20 am and the last at 9:42 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

25 drawable flights of 25. 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

Events76%
Call for service16%
Training and testing4%
Search4%

Flights, in order

25 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
12:20 am	Call for service	13 min	`86666d0f`
12:56 am	Events	17 min	`53c2d219`
1:14 am	Events	16 min	`a7a0197b`
1:30 am	Events	20 min	`2b02dd81`
1:50 am	Events	11 min	`676e6cee`
2:15 am	Events	8 min	`a881724d`
2:25 am	Call for service	12 min	`cb75775b`
2:38 am	Training and testing	7 min	`d0e86936`
2:28 pm	Events	13 min	`9dd6ae59`
3:03 pm	Call for service	7 min	`8fba8dbb`
3:14 pm	Call for service	14 min	`b6a34d03`
3:49 pm	Search	14 min	`d92c92df`
4:10 pm	Events	18 min	`67acc31a`
4:55 pm	Events	17 min	`35ecd2dc`
5:37 pm	Events	16 min	`e7b4bbb2`
6:07 pm	Events	18 min	`757ee0f8`
6:31 pm	Events	17 min	`ae03df40`
6:58 pm	Events	18 min	`2f11f876`
7:26 pm	Events	20 min	`44dce1c3`
7:57 pm	Events	17 min	`6aa6905a`
8:17 pm	Events	17 min	`932f68e3`
8:40 pm	Events	20 min	`60507c29`
9:04 pm	Events	17 min	`07d37054`
9:23 pm	Events	18 min	`eca425ef`
9:42 pm	Events	14 min	`f4778167`

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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