7
drone flights crossed South Central.
7
of them in April 2025.
15 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Police drones crossed South Central 7 times between 4 April 2025 and 24 April 2025, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 24 April 2025.
2 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.
86% 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 7 flights that crossed this area.
Hour of day
Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.
Flight list, April 2025
| Date | Takeoff (CDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 4 Apr 2025 | 1:29 am | Call for service | 10 min | 0994ba42 |
| Fri 4 Apr 2025 | 1:43 am | Call for service | 15 min | 528e9970 |
| Sun 6 Apr 2025 | 8:51 am | Call for service | 21 min | eca43524 |
| Thu 24 Apr 2025 | 3:04 am | Traffic and crashes | 14 min | d9d7c37b |
| Thu 24 Apr 2025 | 3:20 am | Traffic and crashes | 16 min | 70e694b8 |
| Thu 24 Apr 2025 | 3:38 am | Traffic and crashes | 18 min | a06095fd |
| Thu 24 Apr 2025 | 3:58 am | Traffic and crashes | 12 min | f0b7901f |
All 7 flights in April 2025. 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 Central" 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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