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Wichita, Kansas

DelanoBoundary license unconfirmed, not for publication

A neighborhood page. 431 of the 7,561 flights in Wichita Police Department's record crossed this area.

431

drone flights crossed Delano.

20

of them in October 2026.

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Delano 431 times between 1 June 2024 and 29 October 2026, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 October 2026.

20 of the 20 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 2026. The outlined area is the neighborhood. Paths run beyond it because each whole flight is drawn; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
DelanoOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

117 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.

12% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CDT).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.

Month by month

Flights that crossed Delano, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. 8
  2. 0
  3. 7
  4. 0
  5. 0
  6. 4
  7. 0
  8. 0
  9. 0
  10. 10
  11. 6
  12. 29
  13. 25
  14. 3
  15. 12
  16. 38
  17. 27
  18. 4
  19. 10
  20. 9
  21. 10
  22. 35
  23. 7
  24. 89
  25. 7
  26. 36
  27. 19
  28. 16
  29. 20
Jun 24Jul 24Aug 24Sep 24Oct 24Nov 24Dec 24Jan 25Feb 25Mar 25Apr 25May 25Jun 25Jul 25Aug 25Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The two hatched bars are the most recent months and are provisional. The current month is still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 431 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Events41%
  2. Call for service30%
  3. Training and testing22%
  4. Not stated3%
  5. Search1%
  6. Traffic and crashes1%
  7. Other0%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 7 Oct 202612:49 pmCall for service13 min145bfecc
Thu 8 Oct 202611:23 amCall for service17 mina059276a
Thu 8 Oct 202612:00 pmCall for service6 min4181267e
Sun 11 Oct 20266:23 amEvents22 minff4d5644
Sun 11 Oct 20267:29 amEvents19 minf7d5f2ea
Sun 11 Oct 20267:45 amEvents14 min14f2ddea
Sun 11 Oct 20267:59 amEvents20 min172be9df
Sun 11 Oct 20268:15 amEvents18 mina04d5d0e
Sun 11 Oct 20268:32 amEvents19 min25439e3e
Sun 11 Oct 20269:03 amEvents18 min4f045d83
Sun 11 Oct 202610:10 amEvents14 min403d7c36
Sun 11 Oct 202610:23 amEvents19 minb21da032
Sun 11 Oct 202610:58 amEvents18 mind5edc136
Sun 11 Oct 202611:13 amEvents15 minf69938c9
Sun 11 Oct 202611:29 amEvents20 minc276b177
Sun 11 Oct 202611:51 amEvents17 min06bd02a8
Sun 11 Oct 202611:53 amEvents18 mina388a75e
Thu 22 Oct 202612:12 pmCall for service13 minf186a82c
Fri 23 Oct 202610:03 pmEvents18 min44b6bd60
Thu 29 Oct 202611:12 amCall for service19 minf4e6074e

All 20 flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
  • 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 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.
  • Boundary. "Delano" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Wichita (Neighborhood Associations), licence recorded as "City of Wichita open data disclaimer (provided AS IS; no license stated)", in the place layer file for Wichita. Boundary license unconfirmed, not for publication: ADR 0003 bars paging a place whose licence is unknown or share-alike; this page exists only in the local demo.
  • A flight counts for this area when its simplified path intersects the polygon (shapely). The join uses the unclipped line; only the clipped line is drawn.

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