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Wichita, Kansas

South Area, February 2026

A neighborhood page. 18 of the 7,565 flights in Wichita Police Department's record crossed this area in February 2026.

18

drone flights crossed South Area.

18

of them in February 2026.

19 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed South Area 18 times between 9 February 2026 and 18 February 2026, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 18 February 2026.

18 of the 18 drawable flights that crossed the area in February 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.
South AreaOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

89% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CST).

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 18 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service83%
  2. Search11%
  3. Not stated6%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, February 2026

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Mon 9 Feb 20264:53 pmNot stated22 min0b5d783e
Sun 15 Feb 202610:15 pmCall for service18 minaa29d163
Sun 15 Feb 202610:35 pmCall for service20 min98280523
Sun 15 Feb 202610:52 pmCall for service15 minecbe1f61
Sun 15 Feb 202611:04 pmCall for service20 min842d57ab
Sun 15 Feb 202611:21 pmCall for service20 mina6c229e6
Sun 15 Feb 202611:39 pmCall for service19 minf5fb7112
Sun 15 Feb 202611:54 pmCall for service19 min98188c3b
Mon 16 Feb 202612:11 amCall for service20 min2fca2d6c
Mon 16 Feb 202612:27 amCall for service19 minedbade21
Mon 16 Feb 202612:44 amCall for service18 min857e2645
Mon 16 Feb 202612:59 amCall for service22 min7c4ed943
Mon 16 Feb 20261:17 amCall for service20 min31b25b48
Mon 16 Feb 20261:33 amCall for service20 min2d729e26
Mon 16 Feb 20261:51 amCall for service15 min137100cd
Mon 16 Feb 20262:04 amCall for service14 minfc5f73ba
Mon 16 Feb 20268:09 amSearch20 mine21fdb3d
Wed 18 Feb 20261:36 amSearch16 min79413349

All 18 flights in February 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. "South Area" 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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