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Wichita, Kansas · one day

Friday 28 August 2026

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

24

drone flights over Wichita that day.

12:07 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:46 pm.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 24 times on Friday 28 August 2026, the first at 12:07 am and the last at 11:46 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

  1. Call for service46%
  2. Events33%
  3. Not stated12%
  4. Search4%
  5. Training and testing4%

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)PurposeAirborneFlight
12:07 amSearch10 min837b59d5
1:32 amCall for service10 minbccb2197
7:33 amCall for service14 min591e0ec6
7:48 amCall for service17 mina3995880
8:06 amCall for service15 minb8837ece
8:33 amCall for service13 min6ac7097c
8:53 amCall for service16 minbedb73ac
9:05 amCall for service14 min9c6c87f1
10:43 amTraining and testing7 min0aaef3bc
12:35 pmCall for service13 minc88754fb
3:09 pmCall for service9 min0d20a95a
7:01 pmNot stated24 minf3c5f27c
7:33 pmEvents20 min50694c86
8:02 pmEvents20 min94941237
8:34 pmEvents15 minb51c3914
8:53 pmEvents19 minb602f908
9:12 pmCall for service11 mined8776d3
9:23 pmEvents21 min3e90f8b7
9:52 pmCall for service15 min3119b344
9:57 pmNot stated20 mina442274c
10:12 pmEvents20 mina1ce4c04
10:18 pmNot stated14 min4bf1f611
11:14 pmEvents17 min3bcd780a
11:46 pmEvents18 min6b7156a2

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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