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Wichita, Kansas

Southwest, February 2026

A neighborhood page. 16 of the 7,565 flights in Wichita Police Department's record crossed this area in February 2026.

16

drone flights crossed Southwest.

16

of them in February 2026.

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Southwest 16 times between 2 February 2026 and 28 February 2026, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 February 2026.

16 of the 16 drawable flights that crossed the area in February 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.
SouthwestOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

12% 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 16 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service81%
  2. Training and testing12%
  3. Not stated6%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, February 2026

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Mon 2 Feb 202612:29 amCall for service17 min42d5f84a
Tue 3 Feb 20261:46 pmCall for service18 min8abb455c
Thu 5 Feb 202611:44 amCall for service19 mine6bf026c
Sat 7 Feb 20268:25 pmCall for service18 min03704556
Sat 7 Feb 20268:45 pmCall for service20 minbc20b890
Mon 9 Feb 20264:53 pmNot stated22 min0b5d783e
Fri 13 Feb 20268:50 amCall for service8 min6fb5a9ff
Tue 17 Feb 20269:55 amTraining and testing15 min55b4509c
Wed 18 Feb 202612:22 pmCall for service14 min7f92ce9e
Fri 20 Feb 20262:57 amCall for service12 min0836f9fa
Mon 23 Feb 202612:18 pmCall for service20 minc7bb332a
Tue 24 Feb 20269:51 amTraining and testing17 mine891964b
Thu 26 Feb 202611:14 amCall for service13 min7aa52f15
Thu 26 Feb 202611:29 amCall for service18 minfb694ac5
Thu 26 Feb 202612:13 pmCall for service11 min216f331e
Sat 28 Feb 202610:38 amCall for service24 min661932b4

All 16 flights in February 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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