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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Wick Field, January 2026

A neighborhood page. 25 of the 5,228 flights in Milwaukee Police Department's record crossed this area in January 2026.

25

drone flights crossed Wick Field.

25

of them in January 2026.

6 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Wick Field 25 times between 1 January 2026 and 27 January 2026, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 27 January 2026.

25 of the 25 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.
Wick FieldOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

8% 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 25 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Training and testing68%
  2. Events28%
  3. Not stated4%

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 202611:05 amTraining and testing1 min 51 s9da59399
Fri 2 Jan 202612:25 pmTraining and testing11 mina2de035a
Fri 2 Jan 202612:58 pmTraining and testing3 mine7be7138
Thu 8 Jan 20264:11 pmTraining and testing6 minf1599689
Thu 8 Jan 20268:53 pmTraining and testing20 min378291d3
Mon 12 Jan 202610:57 amTraining and testing28 minf679bdfb
Mon 12 Jan 202612:12 pmTraining and testing25 min48f1d8eb
Wed 14 Jan 20268:22 pmTraining and testing1 min 11 sa09218d0
Thu 15 Jan 20268:06 pmTraining and testing6 min39015fe1
Thu 15 Jan 202611:38 pmTraining and testing3 min72bea7b9
Thu 15 Jan 202611:45 pmTraining and testing31 s57d7456e
Tue 20 Jan 20263:50 pmEvents5 min1ab3f94d
Tue 20 Jan 20264:01 pmEvents22 min22e9177a
Tue 20 Jan 20264:15 pmNot stated24 min0d0a6bef
Tue 20 Jan 20264:28 pmEvents30 mind64024d5
Tue 20 Jan 20264:46 pmEvents27 minf67d31c4
Tue 20 Jan 20265:11 pmEvents19 minb7d47aaa
Tue 20 Jan 20265:16 pmEvents19 min56928b5f
Tue 20 Jan 20265:39 pmEvents22 minc15d1807
Fri 23 Jan 20265:34 pmTraining and testing1 min 37 sfd67ba5a
Fri 23 Jan 20266:19 pmTraining and testing1 min 26 s783e57ca
Fri 23 Jan 20266:53 pmTraining and testing2 min77683a80
Tue 27 Jan 20263:33 pmTraining and testing1 min 38 seead32e5
Tue 27 Jan 20263:43 pmTraining and testing4 min6c16a56c
Tue 27 Jan 20263:49 pmTraining and testing38 s29afaa72

All 25 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, simplified to 10 m.
  • 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 committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • Boundary. "Wick Field" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Milwaukee (Neighborhoods, data.milwaukee.gov), licence recorded as "Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)", in the place layer file for Milwaukee.
  • A flight counts for this area when its simplified path intersects the polygon (shapely). The join uses the unclipped line; only the clipped line is drawn.

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