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Wichita, Kansas

Southwest, March 2026

A neighborhood page. 12 of the 7,565 flights in Wichita Police Department's record crossed this area in March 2026.

12

drone flights crossed Southwest.

12

of them in March 2026.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Southwest 12 times between 5 March 2026 and 31 March 2026, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 March 2026.

12 of the 12 drawable flights that crossed the area in March 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

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

25% 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 12 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service58%
  2. Training and testing17%
  3. Search17%
  4. Events8%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, March 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 5 Mar 20269:57 amTraining and testing14 minf775ecc5
Mon 9 Mar 20269:40 amCall for service18 min39400529
Sat 14 Mar 202612:20 pmEvents20 minb75e5ffb
Wed 18 Mar 20261:49 amCall for service15 min6005c093
Fri 20 Mar 202612:51 pmSearch20 mina6f7e764
Fri 20 Mar 20261:13 pmSearch14 mine8b85dad
Tue 24 Mar 20264:33 pmCall for service7 min7e11fd74
Wed 25 Mar 20269:26 amTraining and testing6 minc57dfd04
Thu 26 Mar 20263:11 amCall for service22 mineecf9348
Thu 26 Mar 20263:35 amCall for service22 min4c698ccc
Thu 26 Mar 20269:31 pmCall for service17 minc20b0ce3
Tue 31 Mar 20263:18 pmCall for service19 mine8d11278

All 12 flights in March 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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