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Wichita, Kansas

Southwest, July 2026

A neighborhood page. 17 of the 7,565 flights in Wichita Police Department's record crossed this area in July 2026.

17

drone flights crossed Southwest.

17

of them in July 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Southwest 17 times between 8 July 2026 and 25 July 2026, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 25 July 2026.

17 of the 17 drawable flights that crossed the area in July 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.

6% 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 17 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service76%
  2. Training and testing18%
  3. Events6%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, July 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 8 Jul 20268:30 amTraining and testing17 min4f81de42
Wed 8 Jul 20268:58 amTraining and testing17 minc3eeba1a
Wed 8 Jul 202611:22 amTraining and testing10 mine9218413
Thu 9 Jul 202610:06 amCall for service17 min3a8c2543
Fri 10 Jul 202611:46 amCall for service16 min9c49b0bb
Sat 11 Jul 202610:36 pmCall for service16 minc6abfc3a
Fri 17 Jul 202611:26 amCall for service15 min5d8b3b83
Fri 17 Jul 20265:57 pmCall for service20 min14cef0f8
Sat 18 Jul 20263:20 pmCall for service19 min14ffa335
Sat 18 Jul 20263:41 pmCall for service11 min31615cc8
Sat 18 Jul 20264:19 pmEvents10 min3a079354
Sun 19 Jul 202611:45 amCall for service9 min19b470bd
Sun 19 Jul 202612:06 pmCall for service13 min52105fea
Sun 19 Jul 202612:20 pmCall for service13 mine638d9b7
Fri 24 Jul 202612:59 pmCall for service6 mind3089415
Sat 25 Jul 20269:12 pmCall for service11 min282e9e06
Sat 25 Jul 20269:58 pmCall for service9 min305f346e

All 17 flights in July 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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