drone flights over Bethesda that day.

6:38 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:26 am.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Bethesda police drones flew 13 times on Sunday 31 May 2026, the first at 6:38 am and the last at 11:26 am EDT, by Montgomery County Police Department's published record.

13 drawable flights of 13. 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Drone as first responder100%

Flights, in order

13 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
6:38 am	Drone as first responder	4 min	`2d90fa37`
9:31 am	Drone as first responder	18 min	`d9a5442d`
9:34 am	Drone as first responder	17 min	`b675fe6e`
9:39 am	Drone as first responder	1 min 30 s	`9dfa0031`
9:46 am	Drone as first responder	16 min	`78ceb029`
9:52 am	Drone as first responder	8 min	`af23c51e`
10:23 am	Drone as first responder	18 min	`71ad3023`
10:26 am	Drone as first responder	18 min	`358d987e`
10:44 am	Drone as first responder	21 min	`ea0818fa`
10:47 am	Drone as first responder	11 min	`37faf0fa`
11:17 am	Drone as first responder	16 min	`9c083325`
11:20 am	Drone as first responder	15 min	`1600d4e4`
11:26 am	Drone as first responder	11 min	`2e21c81f`

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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