6
drone flights over Bethesda that day.
4:20 am
first takeoff; the last was at 7:27 pm.
13 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Bethesda police drones flew 6 times on Wednesday 27 May 2026, the first at 4:20 am and the last at 7:27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4:20 am | Drone as first responder | 33 s | f4a1f2a9 |
| 4:52 am | Drone as first responder | 14 min | 3fe4885a |
| 1:15 pm | Drone as first responder | 20 min | e1ec4a40 |
| 3:05 pm | Drone as first responder | 13 min | 51585d83 |
| 5:23 pm | Drone as first responder | 8 min | f76e3157 |
| 7:27 pm | Drone as first responder | 15 min | 4be65df8 |
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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