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Wichita, Kansas

Downtown, December 2025

A neighborhood page. 25 of the 7,565 flights in Wichita Police Department's record crossed this area in December 2025.

25

drone flights crossed Downtown.

25

of them in December 2025.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Downtown 25 times between 1 December 2025 and 31 December 2025, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 December 2025.

25 of the 25 drawable flights that crossed the area in December 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

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

28% 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 25 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service52%
  2. Events40%
  3. Training and testing8%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, December 2025

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Mon 1 Dec 20258:18 amCall for service14 min9b9f0601
Tue 2 Dec 202512:09 pmTraining and testing5 minea9be663
Tue 2 Dec 202512:56 pmCall for service15 min18b238f7
Tue 2 Dec 20253:14 pmCall for service15 min82a3d804
Wed 3 Dec 20258:04 amCall for service18 mind0def13e
Mon 8 Dec 202510:30 amTraining and testing13 min16f94bef
Tue 16 Dec 20251:13 pmCall for service16 min366215ec
Sat 27 Dec 20252:15 pmCall for service20 min8484047d
Sat 27 Dec 20254:02 pmCall for service17 min9442bb05
Sat 27 Dec 20254:54 pmCall for service19 minf3d176b6
Sat 27 Dec 20257:37 pmCall for service12 min82e01592
Sun 28 Dec 20259:10 pmCall for service17 minadb3669c
Sun 28 Dec 20259:30 pmCall for service18 mind743ed21
Sun 28 Dec 20259:50 pmCall for service18 min4d314e3d
Sun 28 Dec 202510:09 pmCall for service8 minecd3029c
Wed 31 Dec 20258:46 pmEvents19 min536e0c1c
Wed 31 Dec 20259:06 pmEvents16 min2ed2930c
Wed 31 Dec 20259:22 pmEvents18 min8f4c67ae
Wed 31 Dec 20259:58 pmEvents16 min467f4403
Wed 31 Dec 202510:16 pmEvents16 mind0ed59cd
Wed 31 Dec 202510:34 pmEvents18 min567e94d7
Wed 31 Dec 202510:53 pmEvents17 mincd337d09
Wed 31 Dec 202511:12 pmEvents18 min57ddc133
Wed 31 Dec 202511:28 pmEvents18 min224bce9c
Wed 31 Dec 202511:46 pmEvents19 mina60c9146

All 25 flights in December 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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