drone flights over Wichita that day.

12:19 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:43 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 18 times on Saturday 5 September 2026, the first at 12:19 am and the last at 11:43 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

18 drawable flights of 18. 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 service61%
Events17%
Traffic and crashes17%
Not stated6%

Flights, in order

18 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
12:19 am	Events	6 min	`67de5488`
12:24 am	Traffic and crashes	30 s	`1741e0cc`
12:26 am	Traffic and crashes	1 min 05 s	`3604de0d`
12:31 am	Traffic and crashes	10 min	`35ba36ea`
1:16 am	Events	20 min	`0173a447`
1:38 am	Call for service	14 min	`b2f979ae`
2:24 am	Events	11 min	`8fefbe35`
3:50 am	Call for service	19 min	`c2c5d4c9`
8:42 am	Call for service	14 min	`9ee180e4`
9:39 pm	Call for service	15 min	`87800e94`
9:54 pm	Call for service	13 min	`9b45eb37`
10:10 pm	Call for service	13 min	`93042316`
10:27 pm	Call for service	8 min	`883c06eb`
10:43 pm	Call for service	12 min	`51d60486`
10:56 pm	Call for service	10 min	`9e87a496`
11:13 pm	Call for service	10 min	`24003879`
11:25 pm	Call for service	18 min	`ab842c3f`
11:43 pm	Not stated	20 min	`b8707b2f`

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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