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Wichita, Kansas · one day

Tuesday 13 October 2026

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

10

drone flights over Wichita that day.

7:19 am

first takeoff; the last was at 3:57 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Wichita police drones flew 10 times on Tuesday 13 October 2026, the first at 7:19 am and the last at 3:57 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.

10 drawable flights of 10. 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 service80%
  2. Training and testing20%

Flights, in order

10 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
7:19 amTraining and testing38 s481a3834
9:33 amCall for service11 min0e289247
9:50 amCall for service18 minb37af643
10:22 amCall for service17 min2fbb69e3
10:45 amCall for service1 min 01 s51db8cfc
11:40 amCall for service10 minb6f56e29
12:21 pmCall for service15 min6d7883e6
3:03 pmCall for service2 min2af57df8
3:37 pmCall for service9 min89d8e45d
3:57 pmTraining and testing23 s96c783b0

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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