Military flyover scheduled for Veterans Day ceremony over Punchbowl

There will be a State of Hawaiʻi Department of Defense military jet flyover on Oʻahu by the Hawai‘i Air National Guard on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 2026. HIDOD is informing the public about the flyover, for advance awareness that there will be noise from the aircraft flying overhead.

The flyover will occur during a ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Pūowaina, Punchbowl at around 10:40 a.m.

The flyover will take a flight path coordinated and approved by the FAA. It is the same flight path used annually for this ceremony and Memorial Day. This flyover is conducted as training and is at no cost to taxpayers. It will involve the use of four F-22 Raptors from the Hawaiʻi Air National Guard.