drone flights over Bethesda that day.

8:50 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:34 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Bethesda police drones flew 21 times on Friday 5 June 2026, the first at 8:50 am and the last at 9:34 pm EDT, by Montgomery County Police Department's published record.

21 drawable flights of 21. 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

21 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
8:50 am	Drone as first responder	4 min	`3d4e8215`
9:29 am	Drone as first responder	11 min	`a1ee66cf`
9:42 am	Drone as first responder	6 min	`bbaca2ae`
11:06 am	Drone as first responder	10 min	`749d2bbc`
1:52 pm	Drone as first responder	14 min	`73e800bd`
2:01 pm	Drone as first responder	12 min	`57fd128d`
2:59 pm	Drone as first responder	17 min	`f91ed325`
3:13 pm	Drone as first responder	7 min	`1fdb845e`
3:18 pm	Drone as first responder	16 min	`4a0370ba`
4:38 pm	Drone as first responder	10 min	`f36b71d9`
5:01 pm	Drone as first responder	8 min	`b0a61055`
5:02 pm	Drone as first responder	10 min	`1ba4f680`
5:17 pm	Drone as first responder	6 min	`aafc5066`
5:29 pm	Drone as first responder	21 min	`d566ac82`
5:30 pm	Drone as first responder	16 min	`e25fb06c`
5:45 pm	Drone as first responder	10 min	`d46c2a6f`
6:00 pm	Drone as first responder	7 min	`276b49b0`
6:57 pm	Drone as first responder	16 min	`0f6131cf`
8:07 pm	Drone as first responder	16 min	`852fb02e`
9:11 pm	Drone as first responder	20 min	`b451f3da`
9:34 pm	Drone as first responder	12 min	`82436d08`

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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