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Wichita, Kansas

New Salem, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 9 of the 7,565 flights in Wichita Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

9

drone flights crossed New Salem.

9

of them in August 2026.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed New Salem 9 times between 5 August 2026 and 29 August 2026, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 August 2026.

9 of the 9 drawable flights that crossed the area in August 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.
New SalemOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

11% 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 9 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service89%
  2. Training and testing11%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 5 Aug 20265:30 pmCall for service19 minde1e5ba6
Tue 11 Aug 20269:11 amCall for service17 min2a0547d0
Tue 11 Aug 20269:30 amCall for service6 min948a5f50
Fri 14 Aug 202611:48 amCall for service11 minff5e4c1d
Mon 17 Aug 20263:50 pmCall for service18 min84472bce
Fri 21 Aug 20261:47 pmCall for service14 minf7f95cc7
Tue 25 Aug 20262:03 pmCall for service17 min7441f5f6
Thu 27 Aug 20269:53 pmTraining and testing17 min55ef62ed
Sat 29 Aug 202610:04 pmCall for service8 mind175e4be

All 9 flights in August 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. "New Salem" 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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