318
drone flights crossed Southwest.
7
of them in October 2026.
15 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Police drones crossed Southwest 318 times between 23 September 2024 and 29 October 2026, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 October 2026.
76 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.
23% 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 Southwest, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.
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 318 flights that crossed this area.
Hour of day
Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.
Flight list, October 2026
| Date | Takeoff (CDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 5 Oct 2026 | 3:29 pm | Call for service | 5 min | 89b92a33 |
| Thu 8 Oct 2026 | 11:23 am | Call for service | 17 min | a059276a |
| Thu 8 Oct 2026 | 12:00 pm | Call for service | 6 min | 4181267e |
| Thu 22 Oct 2026 | 12:12 pm | Call for service | 13 min | f186a82c |
| Sat 24 Oct 2026 | 11:52 pm | Call for service | 14 min | 1fed7386 |
| Tue 27 Oct 2026 | 10:07 am | Call for service | 10 min | 272a81cf |
| Thu 29 Oct 2026 | 11:12 am | Call for service | 19 min | f4e6074e |
All 7 flights in October 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. "Southwest" 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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