7
drone flights over Bethesda that day.
11:03 am
first takeoff; the last was at 2:46 pm.
3 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Bethesda police drones flew 7 times on Wednesday 29 April 2026, the first at 11:03 am and the last at 2:46 pm EDT, by Montgomery County Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, EDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
7 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.
| Takeoff (EDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:03 am | Drone as first responder | 4 min | 49e81081 |
| 11:14 am | Drone as first responder | 4 min | 9845c1f2 |
| 11:41 am | Drone as first responder | 3 min | 9f2b2df1 |
| 11:46 am | Drone as first responder | 3 min | deb584ec |
| 11:52 am | Drone as first responder | 53 s | 042cd777 |
| 2:34 pm | Drone as first responder | 2 min | 759b00ef |
| 2:46 pm | Drone as first responder | 4 min | d58f57ab |
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.
- A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.
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