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Wichita, Kansas

South Area, May 2026

A neighborhood page. 22 of the 7,565 flights in Wichita Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

22

drone flights crossed South Area.

22

of them in May 2026.

21 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed South Area 22 times between 6 May 2026 and 21 May 2026, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 21 May 2026.

22 of the 22 drawable flights that crossed the area in May 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

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

41% 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 22 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service86%
  2. Search9%
  3. Not stated5%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, May 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 6 May 202611:13 pmCall for service19 min88f9d45b
Wed 6 May 202611:19 pmCall for service22 minc8308dd5
Wed 6 May 202611:35 pmCall for service22 min48b9acb8
Wed 6 May 202611:43 pmCall for service16 minb6a8dc82
Tue 12 May 20267:09 pmCall for service25 mine24428c1
Tue 12 May 20267:36 pmCall for service22 min34c7be83
Tue 12 May 20268:01 pmCall for service23 mina0f239e2
Tue 12 May 20268:30 pmCall for service11 min7e4102ef
Wed 13 May 202610:13 amSearch20 min4c4768a2
Wed 13 May 202610:35 amSearch10 min63db394e
Fri 15 May 20267:13 pmCall for service25 min6a90c8be
Fri 15 May 20267:39 pmCall for service25 minc68c8b5e
Thu 21 May 20268:01 pmCall for service21 minf7e21af1
Thu 21 May 20268:13 pmCall for service24 mindfac399c
Thu 21 May 20268:20 pmCall for service22 min72f608d5
Thu 21 May 20268:34 pmCall for service22 min1e2b5818
Thu 21 May 20268:39 pmCall for service19 min2e5f1af6
Thu 21 May 202611:15 pmCall for service17 mina05e8f20
Thu 21 May 202611:16 pmNot stated21 min6d90541c
Thu 21 May 202611:34 pmCall for service20 min0d398dd7
Thu 21 May 202611:38 pmCall for service20 mindd01debe
Thu 21 May 202611:56 pmCall for service5 mineba912bd

All 22 flights in May 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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