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Wichita, Kansas

Southwest, December 2025

A neighborhood page. 29 of the 7,565 flights in Wichita Police Department's record crossed this area in December 2025.

29

drone flights crossed Southwest.

29

of them in December 2025.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Southwest 29 times between 1 December 2025 and 31 December 2025, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 December 2025.

29 of the 29 drawable flights that crossed the area in December 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

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

28% 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 29 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service76%
  2. Search10%
  3. Not stated7%
  4. Training and testing7%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, December 2025

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Mon 1 Dec 20253:42 pmCall for service14 min116f5d2f
Tue 2 Dec 20252:49 pmCall for service22 min5b50ffee
Tue 2 Dec 202511:36 pmCall for service16 min84ff14a7
Wed 3 Dec 202511:00 pmCall for service17 min13eb0d45
Wed 3 Dec 202511:23 pmCall for service17 mincd8518d4
Thu 4 Dec 202512:15 pmCall for service16 min72fd9f5c
Mon 8 Dec 202512:50 pmCall for service12 min33ace583
Tue 9 Dec 202512:55 pmCall for service16 min81affc02
Wed 10 Dec 20255:59 amCall for service12 minb1fd9361
Wed 10 Dec 20256:00 amNot stated17 minc3f2a268
Wed 10 Dec 20256:11 amCall for service14 min221d2a84
Wed 10 Dec 20256:14 amNot stated17 mind4764207
Wed 10 Dec 20256:20 amCall for service12 min11294dec
Wed 10 Dec 20256:26 amCall for service7 min9603bf37
Thu 11 Dec 20257:35 amCall for service20 mine2219c2a
Thu 11 Dec 20257:40 amCall for service20 minb76c73b2
Thu 11 Dec 20257:56 amCall for service12 min1d42b3ea
Thu 11 Dec 20254:26 pmCall for service11 min42539289
Sun 14 Dec 202512:40 pmCall for service18 min125c71c9
Tue 16 Dec 202512:32 pmCall for service10 min8cba251c
Wed 17 Dec 20259:46 amCall for service19 min3122d188
Wed 24 Dec 202510:54 amCall for service9 min8646482d
Fri 26 Dec 202512:25 pmTraining and testing5 min8d10e3e7
Fri 26 Dec 202512:34 pmTraining and testing2 mind076e6b2
Fri 26 Dec 202511:20 pmCall for service3 minc77d15ea
Tue 30 Dec 202510:10 pmSearch15 minbcbc7433
Tue 30 Dec 202510:28 pmSearch18 minc2b9ae33
Tue 30 Dec 202510:48 pmSearch12 min7fbdc1b5
Wed 31 Dec 20258:46 amCall for service13 mine0667162

All 29 flights in December 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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