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Wichita, Kansas

Downtown, January 2026

A neighborhood page. 34 of the 7,565 flights in Wichita Police Department's record crossed this area in January 2026.

34

drone flights crossed Downtown.

34

of them in January 2026.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Downtown 34 times between 1 January 2026 and 31 January 2026, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 January 2026.

34 of the 34 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.
DowntownOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

41% 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 34 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Events38%
  2. Call for service32%
  3. Training and testing24%
  4. Search6%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, January 2026

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Jan 202612:05 amEvents18 min1d7964de
Thu 1 Jan 202612:23 amEvents17 minf466d5c2
Thu 1 Jan 202612:39 amEvents19 min2b0269c1
Thu 1 Jan 202612:57 amEvents17 mindc47593c
Thu 1 Jan 20261:14 amEvents17 min90b9ac9d
Thu 1 Jan 20261:30 amEvents19 min846771e6
Thu 1 Jan 20261:47 amEvents17 min5944bd38
Thu 1 Jan 20262:03 amSearch16 mincdd28c10
Thu 1 Jan 20263:35 pmCall for service16 min09b349c2
Thu 1 Jan 20264:18 pmCall for service5 minb672dae9
Wed 14 Jan 202612:14 pmTraining and testing1 min 10 sfb11f291
Fri 16 Jan 20269:18 pmCall for service14 min2b248dfe
Sat 17 Jan 20268:46 pmTraining and testing15 min0b011f10
Sat 17 Jan 202610:45 pmSearch13 minfb30a117
Sat 17 Jan 202610:59 pmEvents13 minf1aac07b
Sat 17 Jan 202611:14 pmCall for service13 minae620876
Sun 18 Jan 20261:12 amCall for service13 minb4e6b785
Sun 18 Jan 20262:06 amEvents15 minfd797bd8
Mon 19 Jan 202610:37 amTraining and testing4 min7f7eaf65
Mon 19 Jan 20261:00 pmCall for service16 min783157ed
Mon 19 Jan 20262:06 pmCall for service20 minc98becae
Mon 19 Jan 20262:27 pmCall for service16 minc5795092
Mon 19 Jan 20263:53 pmCall for service17 min3ab133af
Wed 21 Jan 20269:06 amCall for service16 min746ebf17
Mon 26 Jan 20268:40 pmCall for service20 min092efff6
Tue 27 Jan 20261:00 pmTraining and testing11 min2e06ac5b
Tue 27 Jan 20262:04 pmTraining and testing11 minc359b981
Tue 27 Jan 20262:39 pmTraining and testing16 min803b1ade
Tue 27 Jan 20263:08 pmTraining and testing10 min80c8c4b2
Fri 30 Jan 20265:54 pmTraining and testing13 min4ab6ba9f
Fri 30 Jan 202610:30 pmEvents17 min05d65a8b
Sat 31 Jan 202612:00 pmEvents25 min8c343ecc
Sat 31 Jan 202612:27 pmEvents28 min4266dd12
Sat 31 Jan 202612:57 pmEvents12 min98df9625

All 34 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. "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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