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Wichita, Kansas

Orchard Breeze, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 5 of the 7,565 flights in Wichita Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

5

drone flights crossed Orchard Breeze.

5

of them in August 2026.

4 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Orchard Breeze 5 times between 16 August 2026 and 27 August 2026, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 27 August 2026.

5 of the 5 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.
Orchard BreezeOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

20% 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 5 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service60%
  2. Events20%
  3. Search20%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sun 16 Aug 20266:47 pmCall for service18 minb98398d3
Sun 16 Aug 20267:19 pmEvents4 minfed13a9a
Mon 17 Aug 20263:03 amSearch4 min690ad991
Thu 27 Aug 20269:25 pmCall for service5 min2d31aabe
Thu 27 Aug 20269:35 pmCall for service4 min57bed941

All 5 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. "Orchard Breeze" 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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