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Wichita, Kansas

Orchard Park

A neighborhood page. 26 of the 7,563 flights in Wichita Police Department's record crossed this area.

26

drone flights crossed Orchard Park.

6

of them in September 2026.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Orchard Park 26 times between 14 April 2025 and 16 September 2026, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 16 September 2026.

6 of the 6 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.
Orchard ParkOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

12% 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.

Month by month

Flights that crossed Orchard Park, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. Apr 2025: 1 flights. 1
  2. May 2025: 0 flights. 0
  3. Jun 2025: 0 flights. 0
  4. Jul 2025: 2 flights. 2
  5. Aug 2025: 0 flights. 0
  6. Sep 2025: 0 flights. 0
  7. Oct 2025: 0 flights. 0
  8. Nov 2025: 5 flights. 5
  9. Dec 2025: 1 flights. 1
  10. Jan 2026: 0 flights. 0
  11. Feb 2026: 3 flights. 3
  12. Mar 2026: 0 flights. 0
  13. Apr 2026: 0 flights. 0
  14. May 2026: 2 flights. 2
  15. Jun 2026: 1 flights. 1
  16. Jul 2026: 4 flights. 4
  17. Aug 2026: 1 flights. 1
  18. Sep 2026: 6 flights. 6
Apr 25May 25Jun 25Jul 25Aug 25Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26

The hatched bar is the current month, still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 26 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service46%
  2. Training and testing23%
  3. Traffic and crashes12%
  4. Not stated8%
  5. Other8%
  6. Search4%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 3 Sep 202611:39 amTraining and testing5 min9ac8987e
Thu 3 Sep 202611:47 amTraining and testing10 min2459a2ec
Wed 16 Sep 20267:38 amTraffic and crashes3 min000dc3e8
Wed 16 Sep 20267:45 amTraffic and crashes5 min382d45e9
Wed 16 Sep 20267:54 amOther26 min2913e4c6
Wed 16 Sep 20268:24 amOther11 min8fb6c984

All 6 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. "Orchard Park" 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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