8
drone flights over Bethesda that day.
9:05 am
first takeoff; the last was at 11:56 am.
12 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Bethesda police drones flew 8 times on Wednesday 13 May 2026, the first at 9:05 am and the last at 11:56 am 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
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:05 am | Drone as first responder | 8 min | 766e707a |
| 9:07 am | Drone as first responder | 16 min | 099efc78 |
| 10:16 am | Drone as first responder | 8 min | cadfab35 |
| 10:31 am | Drone as first responder | 12 min | 50459741 |
| 10:32 am | Drone as first responder | 7 min | 5d87be71 |
| 11:05 am | Drone as first responder | 22 min | 41cfa9f0 |
| 11:47 am | Drone as first responder | 12 min | f0b1e59b |
| 11:56 am | Drone as first responder | 12 min | f11b77b1 |
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.
- A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.
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