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Wichita, Kansas

Downtown, May 2024

A neighborhood page. 18 of the 7,565 flights in Wichita Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2024.

18

drone flights crossed Downtown.

18

of them in May 2024.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Downtown 18 times between 29 May 2024 and 31 May 2024, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 May 2024.

18 of the 18 drawable flights that crossed the area in May 2024. 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.
DowntownOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

0% 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.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 18 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Training and testing50%
  2. Events50%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, May 2024

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 29 May 20243:05 pmTraining and testing7 min2fb71cfe
Wed 29 May 20243:55 pmTraining and testing1 min 45 s6009630f
Thu 30 May 20245:27 pmTraining and testing2 minfb996490
Thu 30 May 20245:36 pmTraining and testing3 minaf427572
Thu 30 May 20245:48 pmTraining and testing6 min261494b6
Thu 30 May 20246:37 pmTraining and testing9 minefdc2fe1
Thu 30 May 20246:49 pmTraining and testing1 min 23 s783f5103
Thu 30 May 20247:09 pmTraining and testing9 min4384af16
Thu 30 May 20247:22 pmTraining and testing9 min65687eaf
Fri 31 May 20245:30 pmEvents12 minb9af83e6
Fri 31 May 20245:43 pmEvents14 minc9436791
Fri 31 May 20246:28 pmEvents26 min1a9b03b8
Fri 31 May 20246:55 pmEvents28 min7e82084c
Fri 31 May 20247:25 pmEvents20 mina4784be7
Fri 31 May 20247:47 pmEvents3 minac3e52a0
Fri 31 May 20247:52 pmEvents27 min2f1e4c03
Fri 31 May 20248:25 pmEvents30 min0f810edd
Fri 31 May 20249:03 pmEvents18 minad7b806a

All 18 flights in May 2024. 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. "Downtown" 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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