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Wichita, Kansas

The Elm, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 10 of the 7,565 flights in Wichita Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

10

drone flights crossed The Elm.

10

of them in September 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed The Elm 10 times between 2 September 2026 and 24 September 2026, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 24 September 2026.

10 of the 10 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.
The ElmOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

30% 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 10 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service100%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 2 Sep 20261:32 pmCall for service12 min335ffb51
Thu 3 Sep 20263:57 amCall for service11 min7b79983b
Sun 6 Sep 20265:29 pmCall for service11 min5dfd25a9
Mon 7 Sep 20261:18 pmCall for service16 min14f69afa
Wed 9 Sep 20264:04 pmCall for service7 min8ef2c952
Wed 16 Sep 202610:13 amCall for service11 minc2fdf37b
Thu 17 Sep 20264:05 pmCall for service17 minbd960506
Fri 18 Sep 20262:25 pmCall for service14 min5ddf07bb
Sat 19 Sep 202611:33 pmCall for service14 min0ebc3669
Thu 24 Sep 202611:38 pmCall for service5 min011d0875

All 10 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. "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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