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Wichita, Kansas

Southwest, September 2025

A neighborhood page. 33 of the 7,565 flights in Wichita Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2025.

33

drone flights crossed Southwest.

33

of them in September 2025.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Southwest 33 times between 9 September 2025 and 30 September 2025, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 September 2025.

33 of the 33 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 2025. 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.
SouthwestOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

9% 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 33 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service61%
  2. Training and testing21%
  3. Events12%
  4. Search3%
  5. Traffic and crashes3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2025

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 9 Sep 20254:40 amCall for service8 min0297ac82
Wed 10 Sep 20251:29 amSearch10 min8b3d9254
Thu 11 Sep 202510:36 amCall for service18 minda951c51
Thu 11 Sep 202512:52 pmTraining and testing17 min359e4a6f
Thu 11 Sep 20253:34 pmTraining and testing15 min7da7e02a
Tue 16 Sep 20251:50 pmCall for service16 minbc31da4c
Wed 17 Sep 20258:51 amCall for service16 min936efb77
Wed 17 Sep 20259:08 amCall for service7 min591a9d4f
Thu 18 Sep 20259:30 amCall for service25 min7e5469e5
Thu 18 Sep 202510:18 amCall for service13 min459e675c
Thu 18 Sep 202510:59 amCall for service18 min7cad5a7d
Thu 18 Sep 20253:39 pmTraining and testing13 min74d1eed7
Fri 19 Sep 20251:05 pmCall for service21 min590ebdec
Fri 19 Sep 20251:27 pmCall for service11 minfb50bfe7
Fri 19 Sep 20251:40 pmCall for service12 min992077ce
Fri 19 Sep 20258:56 pmCall for service15 min041709a4
Sun 21 Sep 20252:57 amTraffic and crashes8 min54d8bf4d
Tue 23 Sep 20258:22 amTraining and testing13 min201ae0bd
Tue 23 Sep 20258:57 amCall for service21 minfbe2c096
Wed 24 Sep 20257:43 amCall for service22 min4966bffd
Wed 24 Sep 20258:06 amCall for service20 min0965abbf
Wed 24 Sep 20259:57 amTraining and testing17 mindf41685d
Wed 24 Sep 20251:39 pmCall for service13 mincf0ba518
Thu 25 Sep 20259:29 amCall for service3 min2c3c54fc
Fri 26 Sep 20251:41 pmTraining and testing16 min6f1d93e3
Fri 26 Sep 20253:35 pmCall for service15 min38b2d1df
Sun 28 Sep 202512:10 pmEvents11 min9006d762
Sun 28 Sep 20252:12 pmEvents21 min66b4a8df
Sun 28 Sep 20252:40 pmEvents19 min6a222a10
Sun 28 Sep 20253:48 pmEvents20 min914fe22a
Mon 29 Sep 20258:41 pmCall for service18 min3496cc69
Mon 29 Sep 20259:01 pmCall for service9 minf0e53b1c
Tue 30 Sep 202511:21 amTraining and testing12 min2171b087

All 33 flights in September 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. "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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