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Wichita, Kansas

The Hyde, September 2025

A neighborhood page. 18 of the 7,563 flights in Wichita Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2025.

18

drone flights crossed The Hyde.

18

of them in September 2025.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed The Hyde 18 times between 5 September 2025 and 30 September 2025, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 September 2025.

18 of the 18 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 HydeOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

5 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 18 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Training and testing44%
  2. Events28%
  3. Call for service17%
  4. Search6%
  5. Not stated6%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2025

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 5 Sep 202512:54 amSearch9 minbee1eaa0
Thu 11 Sep 20258:17 amCall for service19 mince4f4dd6
Fri 12 Sep 20253:18 pmTraining and testing12 minbaa0d902
Thu 18 Sep 20257:47 amTraining and testing22 min978e3c21
Thu 18 Sep 20258:33 amNot stated7 min77d2d0f9
Thu 18 Sep 20259:52 amTraining and testing21 min31302c1c
Thu 18 Sep 20252:46 pmTraining and testing17 min86f8b175
Mon 22 Sep 20252:19 pmTraining and testing16 min042df4c7
Mon 22 Sep 20252:42 pmTraining and testing14 min41a86257
Tue 23 Sep 20251:51 pmCall for service21 min8c351cb1
Wed 24 Sep 202510:23 amCall for service22 min52dacf71
Fri 26 Sep 20254:04 pmTraining and testing8 minb7c6ed5f
Sat 27 Sep 20254:22 pmEvents10 min72f23e49
Sun 28 Sep 20252:59 pmEvents22 min0ddea78e
Sun 28 Sep 20253:45 pmEvents23 min7567ff5e
Tue 30 Sep 202510:22 amTraining and testing14 mineac51a48
Tue 30 Sep 202512:02 pmEvents20 min9cc85884
Tue 30 Sep 202512:10 pmEvents17 min870e62b9

All 18 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 Hyde" 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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