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Wichita, Kansas

Downtown, April 2026

A neighborhood page. 49 of the 7,565 flights in Wichita Police Department's record crossed this area in April 2026.

49

drone flights crossed Downtown.

49

of them in April 2026.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Downtown 49 times between 1 April 2026 and 30 April 2026, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 April 2026.

49 of the 49 drawable flights that crossed the area in April 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

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

18% 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 49 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Training and testing53%
  2. Call for service20%
  3. Events16%
  4. Not stated10%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, April 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 1 Apr 20263:56 pmNot stated17 minb2c69391
Thu 2 Apr 20262:05 amTraining and testing18 min1be3a4f8
Thu 2 Apr 20262:26 amTraining and testing11 mindb35b98a
Thu 2 Apr 202611:32 pmTraining and testing19 min625ced63
Sat 4 Apr 202612:43 amCall for service3 minb3f7abec
Sat 4 Apr 20269:13 pmTraining and testing16 min8f902f0f
Mon 6 Apr 20268:42 amCall for service14 min713c9cd0
Tue 7 Apr 202611:05 pmTraining and testing18 min2a9b661a
Thu 9 Apr 20267:39 amTraining and testing16 mine2165f00
Thu 9 Apr 20267:50 amTraining and testing14 min7ab8909c
Thu 9 Apr 20268:26 amTraining and testing14 min41f2fb62
Fri 10 Apr 20261:47 amTraining and testing17 min2f7932f7
Fri 10 Apr 202610:55 pmTraining and testing3 min3b9b192d
Sat 11 Apr 202612:54 amEvents16 min99198182
Tue 14 Apr 20268:46 amTraining and testing14 min71f769f6
Tue 14 Apr 20268:53 amTraining and testing13 min874c0096
Tue 14 Apr 20269:02 amTraining and testing11 min736fc49c
Tue 14 Apr 20269:14 amTraining and testing10 min13550a2c
Fri 17 Apr 20264:29 pmEvents14 min58952af2
Fri 17 Apr 20266:06 pmEvents22 minc48e4dc8
Fri 17 Apr 20266:30 pmNot stated21 min357f0c14
Fri 17 Apr 20266:52 pmEvents20 min8759154e
Fri 17 Apr 20267:17 pmEvents20 min412cd8a2
Mon 20 Apr 202610:24 amEvents4 min1247223a
Mon 20 Apr 202611:01 amEvents5 minb9858a79
Tue 21 Apr 202611:52 amCall for service8 mina1fdfe7f
Tue 21 Apr 202612:01 pmCall for service9 min26a5fd35
Tue 21 Apr 202612:15 pmCall for service19 mine4fec088
Tue 21 Apr 20261:24 pmTraining and testing15 min826fe8e9
Tue 21 Apr 20263:55 pmCall for service17 min558fee7e
Wed 22 Apr 20268:52 amNot stated15 minb7334c05
Wed 22 Apr 20269:13 amNot stated15 mine95e9ef0
Wed 22 Apr 202611:56 amCall for service18 min3f625f47
Wed 22 Apr 20261:27 pmCall for service16 minfc8d919a
Fri 24 Apr 20262:07 pmCall for service14 min32822857
Sat 25 Apr 20261:52 amEvents12 min75838137
Wed 29 Apr 20267:41 amTraining and testing17 mine9082266
Wed 29 Apr 20267:50 amTraining and testing20 minfd122d72
Wed 29 Apr 20267:59 amTraining and testing18 minc2e7af4b
Wed 29 Apr 20268:29 amTraining and testing7 min0dc5a91b
Wed 29 Apr 20269:14 amTraining and testing14 min07176869
Wed 29 Apr 20269:48 amTraining and testing23 mina8941b02
Wed 29 Apr 20269:51 amTraining and testing13 min7d1cd108
Wed 29 Apr 20269:55 amTraining and testing14 min3e673499
Wed 29 Apr 20262:17 pmNot stated8 min74963e33
Thu 30 Apr 202611:54 amCall for service18 min7c41cc6c
Thu 30 Apr 202612:30 pmTraining and testing15 min431afc2d
Thu 30 Apr 202612:55 pmTraining and testing8 minebd4c5f1
Thu 30 Apr 20261:06 pmTraining and testing10 min7216db69

All 49 flights in April 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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