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Wichita, Kansas

The Hyde, January 2026

A neighborhood page. 12 of the 7,563 flights in Wichita Police Department's record crossed this area in January 2026.

12

drone flights crossed The Hyde.

12

of them in January 2026.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed The Hyde 12 times between 1 January 2026 and 27 January 2026, by Wichita Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 27 January 2026.

12 of the 12 drawable flights that crossed the area in January 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 HydeOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

42% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CST).

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 12 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service75%
  2. Search8%
  3. Events8%
  4. Training and testing8%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, January 2026

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Jan 20263:35 pmCall for service16 min09b349c2
Fri 9 Jan 202612:16 amCall for service5 min90ab260e
Sat 17 Jan 202610:45 pmSearch13 minfb30a117
Sat 17 Jan 202610:59 pmEvents13 minf1aac07b
Sun 18 Jan 202612:07 amCall for service14 mindcfc6b4f
Sun 18 Jan 20261:12 amCall for service13 minb4e6b785
Mon 19 Jan 20261:00 pmCall for service16 min783157ed
Wed 21 Jan 20269:06 amCall for service16 min746ebf17
Wed 21 Jan 202610:57 amCall for service15 mina30c6b2f
Wed 21 Jan 20261:35 pmCall for service18 min87b0d478
Tue 27 Jan 20261:47 pmCall for service19 min7acca8ca
Tue 27 Jan 20263:23 pmTraining and testing12 min855f77bb

All 12 flights in January 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 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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