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Wichita, Kansas

Southwest, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 16 of the 7,579 flights in Wichita Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

16

drone flights crossed Southwest.

16

of them in September 2026.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Southwest 16 times between 1 September 2026 and 25 September 2026, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 25 September 2026.

16 of the 16 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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.

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 16 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service69%
  2. Search19%
  3. Not stated6%
  4. Events6%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 1 Sep 20269:31 pmNot stated19 minbb893ee0
Fri 4 Sep 20262:08 pmCall for service13 minf0138977
Sat 5 Sep 20269:54 pmCall for service13 min9b45eb37
Thu 10 Sep 20268:38 pmCall for service21 min8ba91c7a
Thu 10 Sep 20269:02 pmCall for service18 min5992084d
Thu 10 Sep 20269:23 pmCall for service19 minf8e2860c
Thu 10 Sep 20269:45 pmCall for service19 minda96cbc8
Thu 10 Sep 202610:08 pmCall for service20 min62907203
Thu 10 Sep 202610:30 pmCall for service11 min688af5b4
Wed 16 Sep 20263:42 pmCall for service15 mina958ab9d
Thu 17 Sep 20267:49 pmSearch16 min6ca6389c
Thu 17 Sep 20268:10 pmSearch14 min62dee273
Fri 18 Sep 202611:04 pmEvents16 mincb8d0e8f
Thu 24 Sep 20266:00 pmSearch13 minde8c902b
Fri 25 Sep 20268:09 amCall for service15 min1e1f69bd
Fri 25 Sep 20268:20 amCall for service13 min7230023b

All 16 flights in September 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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