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Wichita, Kansas

The Elm, September 2025

A neighborhood page. 17 of the 7,565 flights in Wichita Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2025.

17

drone flights crossed The Elm.

17

of them in September 2025.

23 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed The Elm 17 times between 7 September 2025 and 24 September 2025, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 24 September 2025.

17 of the 17 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 2025. 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.
The ElmOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

0% 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 service82%
  2. Search18%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2025

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sun 7 Sep 20254:17 pmCall for service24 min8bfee1f3
Sun 7 Sep 20254:21 pmCall for service24 mind1791b8d
Sun 7 Sep 20254:42 pmCall for service24 mindba6b862
Sun 7 Sep 20254:46 pmCall for service26 min83be862b
Sun 7 Sep 20255:07 pmCall for service23 min95f62b3e
Sun 7 Sep 20255:13 pmCall for service23 min10be2ed5
Sun 7 Sep 20255:37 pmCall for service14 min7a030a85
Sun 7 Sep 20255:43 pmCall for service12 minc13dd81b
Sun 7 Sep 20256:12 pmCall for service23 mincba9b8bf
Sun 7 Sep 20256:14 pmCall for service25 minc89e757b
Sun 7 Sep 20256:37 pmCall for service27 min6d48aee0
Sun 7 Sep 20256:41 pmCall for service6 min857f490c
Sun 7 Sep 20257:07 pmCall for service27 min1c4cc591
Sun 7 Sep 20257:36 pmCall for service25 mindaf48ca8
Wed 24 Sep 20257:37 pmSearch17 min6b65b24b
Wed 24 Sep 20257:57 pmSearch14 minb261de1b
Wed 24 Sep 20258:13 pmSearch10 min07b76ce8

All 17 flights in September 2025. 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. "The Elm" 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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