How much each flyover cost during Trump’s Fourth of July event

This post has been updated.

President Trump largely stayed away from politics during his hour-long “Salute to America” event on Thursday.

Aside from passing references to the Space Force, $750,000 worth of donated fireworks, defeating the Islamic State in Syria (“100 percent gone”) and saying the United States is stronger than ever, the most noteworthy part of the event is also something we still know little about: the seven flyovers and how much the celebration cost the Pentagon.

The Washington Post reported earlier this week that the flyovers could cost more than $2 million, and a Pentagon official told the New York Times the event “would cost the military well over $1 million.”

Below is what we know about the approximate cost of each flyover during Thursday’s event:

First flyover

What	Where did it fly from	Cost
Air Force One	Joint Base Andrews, Md.	$200,000/hour

Second flyover

What	Where did they fly from	Cost
MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter	Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Fla.	$6,000/hour
MH-65 Dolphin helicopter	Air Station Atlantic City, N.J.	$4,000/hour
HC-144 Ocean Sentry	Air Station Miami, Fla.	$4,000/hour

Third flyover

What	Where did they fly from	Cost
B-2 Stealth Bomber	Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo.	$140,000/hour
Two F-22 Raptors	Langley Air Force Base, Va.	$36,000/hour

Fourth flyover

What	Where did they fly from	Cost
Two F-18 Super Hornets	Naval Air Station Oceana, Va.	$10,000/hour
Two F-35 Lightnings	Naval Air Station Lemoore, Calif.	$17,000/hour

Fifth flyover

What	Where did they fly from	Cost
VH-92 helicopter	Unknown	Unknown
Two V-22 Ospreys	Quantico, Va.	Unknown

Sixth flyover

What	Where did they fly from	Cost
Four Apache helicopters	Unknown	$5,000/hour

Seventh flyover

What	Where did they fly from	Cost
Six Blue Angel F-18 Hornets	Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla.	$10,000/hour

The combined hourly cost of the 24 aircraft that performed a flyover on Thursday is at least $560,000 per hour, according to the Defense Department comptroller’s hourly reimbursement rates for fiscal year 2019 and The Post’s previous reporting. This does not include the other unknown costs listed above.

As The Post previously reported, the National Park Service diverted nearly $2.5 million for the event, and when Trump last considered doing a military parade in 2018, the Defense Department estimated it would cost $92 million.

But when asked this week about the estimated cost for Trump’s “Salute to America,” Pentagon officials referred “virtually all questions” to the White House, because Trump wanted much of the event to be a surprise.