6
drone flights over Bethesda that day.
12:46 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 3:51 pm.
9 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Bethesda police drones flew 6 times on Wednesday 20 May 2026, the first at 12:46 pm and the last at 3:51 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:46 pm | Drone as first responder | 12 min | ade7cb55 |
| 12:58 pm | Drone as first responder | 8 min | 07adb3dc |
| 1:30 pm | Drone as first responder | 13 min | 8e782209 |
| 1:55 pm | Drone as first responder | 7 min | f348eeb0 |
| 2:56 pm | Drone as first responder | 9 min | 9ac53d9c |
| 3:51 pm | Drone as first responder | 6 min | fc113ce5 |
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- 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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