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Wichita, Kansas

Downtown, April 2025

A neighborhood page. 10 of the 7,579 flights in Wichita Police Department's record crossed this area in April 2025.

10

drone flights crossed Downtown.

10

of them in April 2025.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Downtown 10 times between 5 April 2025 and 24 April 2025, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 24 April 2025.

10 of the 10 drawable flights that crossed the area in April 2025. 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

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

40% 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 10 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Training and testing60%
  2. Traffic and crashes40%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, April 2025

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sat 5 Apr 202512:09 pmTraining and testing10 min24b707e2
Sat 5 Apr 202512:20 pmTraining and testing17 min67eef6e6
Sat 5 Apr 202512:39 pmTraining and testing4 minc0372dfc
Sat 5 Apr 20251:00 pmTraining and testing8 min11ed7d1a
Sat 5 Apr 20251:12 pmTraining and testing3 minfc258790
Tue 15 Apr 20252:35 pmTraining and testing20 min6c61b1da
Thu 24 Apr 20253:04 amTraffic and crashes14 mind9d7c37b
Thu 24 Apr 20253:20 amTraffic and crashes16 min70e694b8
Thu 24 Apr 20253:38 amTraffic and crashes18 mina06095fd
Thu 24 Apr 20253:58 amTraffic and crashes12 minf0b7901f

All 10 flights in April 2025. 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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