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Wichita, Kansas

Delano, January 2026

A neighborhood page. 9 of the 7,565 flights in Wichita Police Department's record crossed this area in January 2026.

9

drone flights crossed Delano.

9

of them in January 2026.

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Delano 9 times between 15 January 2026 and 28 January 2026, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 January 2026.

9 of the 9 drawable flights that crossed the area in January 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

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

22% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CST).

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

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 9 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Events44%
  2. Call for service33%
  3. Training and testing22%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, January 2026

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 15 Jan 20264:13 amCall for service13 min1aa7e115
Thu 15 Jan 20264:32 amCall for service13 minb585887d
Mon 26 Jan 20268:40 pmCall for service20 min092efff6
Tue 27 Jan 20262:39 pmTraining and testing16 min803b1ade
Tue 27 Jan 20263:08 pmTraining and testing10 min80c8c4b2
Wed 28 Jan 202611:43 amEvents26 min20f9cf53
Wed 28 Jan 202612:11 pmEvents25 min4fec3a99
Wed 28 Jan 202612:38 pmEvents25 min5b21a2c7
Wed 28 Jan 20261:05 pmEvents18 min98a9e6de

All 9 flights in January 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, 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.
  • Boundary. "Delano" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Wichita (Neighborhood Associations), licence "City of Wichita open data disclaimer (provided AS IS; no license stated)". Boundary licence unconfirmed: the boundary is shown for orientation only.
  • A flight counts for this area when its path crosses the boundary; only the part inside is drawn.

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