9
drone flights over Wichita that day.
8:12 am
first takeoff; the last was at 1:38 pm.
12 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Wichita police drones flew 9 times on Tuesday 27 October 2026, the first at 8:12 am and the last at 1:38 pm CDT, by Wichita Police Department's published record.
One flight; takeoff and landing removed
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
9 listable flights. Flights in the latest full month link to their own page.
| Takeoff (CDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:12 am | Training and testing | 1 min 11 s | 772a1d15 |
| 8:45 am | Call for service | 16 min | 8060df01 |
| 9:27 am | Call for service | 11 min | a1dc0adf |
| 10:07 am | Call for service | 10 min | 272a81cf |
| 10:23 am | Training and testing | 1 min 48 s | 31b1f003 |
| 12:00 pm | Call for service | 12 min | fb9b4f18 |
| 1:00 pm | Call for service | 18 min | b27a21f5 |
| 1:20 pm | Call for service | 15 min | 2c37537f |
| 1:38 pm | Call for service | 19 min | eb2c1e2d |
How this page is made
- Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
- Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
- The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
- Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
- Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
- A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.
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