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Wichita, Kansas

New Salem, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 20 of the 7,565 flights in Wichita Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

20

drone flights crossed New Salem.

20

of them in September 2026.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed New Salem 20 times between 1 September 2026 and 20 September 2026, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 20 September 2026.

20 of the 20 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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

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

10% 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 20 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service85%
  2. Events10%
  3. Not stated5%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 1 Sep 202611:54 amCall for service18 minc0bd76df
Wed 2 Sep 202611:38 amCall for service17 min24cdb141
Wed 2 Sep 202611:55 amNot stated16 minb307ab70
Wed 2 Sep 202612:13 pmCall for service15 mindaac05ec
Wed 2 Sep 20261:32 pmCall for service12 min335ffb51
Wed 2 Sep 20265:01 pmCall for service12 min25bf498e
Wed 2 Sep 20265:25 pmCall for service15 mine7a8b5ab
Wed 2 Sep 20265:40 pmCall for service16 minba494a2a
Thu 3 Sep 20263:57 amCall for service11 min7b79983b
Sun 6 Sep 20265:29 pmCall for service11 min5dfd25a9
Mon 7 Sep 20261:18 pmCall for service16 min14f69afa
Wed 9 Sep 20263:34 pmCall for service15 min85ed2c3a
Wed 9 Sep 20264:04 pmCall for service7 min8ef2c952
Mon 14 Sep 20262:31 pmCall for service11 min37c38e83
Wed 16 Sep 202610:13 amCall for service11 minc2fdf37b
Thu 17 Sep 20264:05 pmCall for service17 minbd960506
Fri 18 Sep 20262:25 pmCall for service14 min5ddf07bb
Sat 19 Sep 202611:33 pmCall for service14 min0ebc3669
Sun 20 Sep 202611:42 amEvents22 min9eeb9a8b
Sun 20 Sep 20262:38 pmEvents24 min50ba78fa

All 20 flights in September 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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