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Wichita, Kansas

Downtown, July 2025

A neighborhood page. 12 of the 7,563 flights in Wichita Police Department's record crossed this area in July 2025.

12

drone flights crossed Downtown.

12

of them in July 2025.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Downtown 12 times between 4 July 2025 and 17 July 2025, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 17 July 2025.

12 of the 12 drawable flights that crossed the area in July 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

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

8% 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 12 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Training and testing67%
  2. Events33%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, July 2025

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 4 Jul 20257:59 pmTraining and testing25 min2de597ea
Fri 4 Jul 20258:22 pmEvents24 min6bc7094b
Fri 4 Jul 20258:44 pmTraining and testing25 min0721c947
Fri 4 Jul 20259:07 pmEvents20 mina88dc62d
Fri 4 Jul 20259:26 pmTraining and testing16 min91dcfd88
Fri 4 Jul 20259:41 pmEvents18 min94fd15a1
Fri 4 Jul 20259:57 pmTraining and testing17 min675a4c5f
Fri 4 Jul 202510:11 pmEvents9 min1bf0dea3
Thu 17 Jul 20253:27 pmTraining and testing6 min59879781
Thu 17 Jul 20253:37 pmTraining and testing53 s1904d0f1
Thu 17 Jul 20253:39 pmTraining and testing1 min 20 s21e64447
Thu 17 Jul 20253:42 pmTraining and testing35 s18898e93

All 12 flights in July 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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