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Wichita, Kansas

Southwest, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 27 of the 7,565 flights in Wichita Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

27

drone flights crossed Southwest.

27

of them in August 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Southwest 27 times between 4 August 2026 and 31 August 2026, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 August 2026.

27 of the 27 drawable flights that crossed the area in August 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

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

19% 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 27 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service74%
  2. Search15%
  3. Training and testing11%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 4 Aug 20261:55 pmTraining and testing6 min20d485ae
Tue 4 Aug 20262:24 pmTraining and testing2 min8f23ae07
Tue 4 Aug 20262:28 pmCall for service16 min6a6365ab
Tue 4 Aug 20264:33 pmCall for service16 min3c2cea53
Wed 5 Aug 202610:28 amCall for service21 minde4644e9
Wed 5 Aug 202610:50 amCall for service12 min774c8db5
Wed 5 Aug 20262:01 pmTraining and testing11 minb1d915ed
Fri 14 Aug 20262:06 pmCall for service10 min759233b0
Fri 14 Aug 20262:18 pmCall for service7 minb0c2bbfa
Fri 14 Aug 20262:45 pmCall for service22 mine6f23252
Fri 14 Aug 20263:08 pmCall for service25 minbe47e2c5
Fri 14 Aug 20263:19 pmCall for service26 mineb63496c
Fri 14 Aug 20263:47 pmCall for service10 minad180b8b
Sat 22 Aug 20262:31 pmCall for service14 min64c7ce32
Sat 22 Aug 20262:46 pmCall for service15 min26a453f4
Sat 22 Aug 20265:20 pmCall for service14 min1c3d03a4
Sat 22 Aug 20265:27 pmCall for service5 min5b7af4ee
Sat 22 Aug 20267:08 pmCall for service12 min76805e71
Sat 22 Aug 20268:10 pmCall for service9 min3fdd9729
Sat 22 Aug 202610:53 pmCall for service10 min13d6e4a9
Sun 23 Aug 202612:20 amCall for service13 min86666d0f
Sun 23 Aug 20263:49 pmSearch14 mind92c92df
Tue 25 Aug 202612:48 amSearch20 mine9cbf930
Tue 25 Aug 20261:10 amSearch18 mine19e881d
Tue 25 Aug 20261:31 amSearch11 min2dd8e7af
Tue 25 Aug 20269:33 pmCall for service11 min3dc3b2b7
Mon 31 Aug 202611:32 amCall for service16 mine87da4a0

All 27 flights in August 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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