9
drone flights over Wichita that day.
9:33 am
first takeoff; the last was at 11:59 pm.
20 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Wichita police drones flew 9 times on Friday 16 October 2026, the first at 9:33 am and the last at 11:59 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:33 am | Call for service | 18 min | 1332e677 |
| 10:10 am | Call for service | 6 min | 555c6a5f |
| 4:52 pm | Call for service | 7 min | a0db5f39 |
| 9:24 pm | Call for service | 13 min | 60f5304e |
| 9:43 pm | Call for service | 20 min | 1d6c5921 |
| 10:09 pm | Events | 20 min | 8f9eb268 |
| 10:52 pm | Events | 21 min | 48893a49 |
| 11:26 pm | Call for service | 21 min | 794b9e4b |
| 11:59 pm | Events | 20 min | fd423e16 |
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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