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  4. May 2026
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Bethesda, Maryland · one day

Friday 29 May 2026

19 drone flights from Montgomery County Police Department's published record.

19

drone flights over Bethesda that day.

10:03 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:31 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Bethesda police drones flew 19 times on Friday 29 May 2026, the first at 10:03 am and the last at 11:31 pm EDT, by Montgomery County Police Department's published record.

19 drawable flights of 19. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, EDT.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Drone as first responder100%

Flights, in order

19 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)PurposeAirborneFlight
10:03 amDrone as first responder4 minfef85507
10:15 amDrone as first responder4 minf46bb9ef
11:01 amDrone as first responder9 min2d91f97b
11:11 amDrone as first responder11 minb4a8ceff
11:26 amDrone as first responder3 minb9f02637
11:38 amDrone as first responder5 min1b45dff0
12:59 pmDrone as first responder17 min7d8731d3
1:18 pmDrone as first responder11 minfbacf0bf
1:33 pmDrone as first responder36 sa104ee55
1:35 pmDrone as first responder10 min5fdc426c
2:27 pmDrone as first responder16 min76c86c3d
6:25 pmDrone as first responder15 min7ad0c0ce
7:11 pmDrone as first responder1 min 32 sbc3c1657
7:43 pmDrone as first responder5 minf6619861
8:59 pmDrone as first responder17 mindd52bd93
9:38 pmDrone as first responder1 min 30 s356cde22
9:40 pmDrone as first responder8 min3527f52f
10:32 pmDrone as first responder21 min027d3470
11:31 pmDrone as first responder18 minb2c4e1b6

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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