drone flights over Wichita that day.

12:48 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:45 pm.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 24 times on Tuesday 25 August 2026, the first at 12:48 am and the last at 9:45 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

24 drawable flights of 24. 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 service42%
Training and testing25%
Events21%
Search12%

Flights, in order

24 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
12:48 am	Search	20 min	`e9cbf930`
1:10 am	Search	18 min	`e19e881d`
1:31 am	Search	11 min	`2dd8e7af`
7:51 am	Call for service	19 min	`a11932f6`
8:11 am	Call for service	19 min	`12bba529`
9:30 am	Events	19 min	`6bb91000`
9:54 am	Events	22 min	`6a7d1100`
10:14 am	Events	21 min	`ba50673e`
10:32 am	Events	21 min	`4e666740`
10:52 am	Events	20 min	`ee13f6da`
11:26 am	Call for service	14 min	`3caa57eb`
11:29 am	Training and testing	10 min	`3bf6942d`
11:42 am	Training and testing	1 min 51 s	`ff9aed3c`
12:03 pm	Call for service	15 min	`044f7fa4`
12:29 pm	Call for service	8 min	`26fd487a`
12:42 pm	Training and testing	1 min 55 s	`1c213a43`
1:45 pm	Call for service	10 min	`caf2862c`
1:58 pm	Training and testing	4 min	`fa25346c`
2:03 pm	Call for service	17 min	`7441f5f6`
2:09 pm	Training and testing	8 min	`b09d333f`
3:09 pm	Call for service	12 min	`89dff304`
4:54 pm	Call for service	17 min	`1dfdc9ab`
9:33 pm	Call for service	11 min	`3dc3b2b7`
9:45 pm	Training and testing	4 min	`bc4877bf`

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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