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Wichita, Kansas

Southwest, May 2026

A neighborhood page. 14 of the 7,565 flights in Wichita Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

14

drone flights crossed Southwest.

14

of them in May 2026.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Southwest 14 times between 1 May 2026 and 31 May 2026, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 May 2026.

14 of the 14 drawable flights that crossed the area in May 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.

36% 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 14 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service79%
  2. Training and testing7%
  3. Not stated7%
  4. Events7%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, May 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 1 May 20261:47 pmCall for service10 min3658c262
Sat 2 May 20264:39 amCall for service3 min11f14123
Sun 3 May 20268:21 amTraining and testing17 min1da9efbb
Sun 3 May 20268:22 amCall for service17 min83ab07d1
Thu 7 May 20268:12 pmCall for service18 min23878836
Fri 8 May 202611:53 pmCall for service20 min5a6f77a5
Sat 9 May 202612:15 amCall for service18 min50b0476f
Tue 12 May 20261:51 amCall for service16 min2b5a713e
Tue 12 May 20262:09 amCall for service1 min 31 s75a64ce0
Tue 12 May 20268:04 amCall for service8 min9efc9833
Tue 12 May 202610:31 amNot stated12 mine35fef27
Wed 13 May 20268:19 amCall for service14 min702df225
Fri 29 May 20262:17 pmCall for service15 min1bcc1394
Sun 31 May 20266:50 pmEvents19 min7050cb42

All 14 flights in May 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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