overflight

over- +‎ flight

overflight (plural overflights)

1. The flight of an aircraft over a particular place; used especially to refer to a flight over foreign or enemy territory.
   • 1987 May 9, Bod Lederer, “US Denies AIDS Bio War with Contradictions”, in Gay Community News, page 8:

     Nicaragua has been investigating the possibility that the 1985 outbreak of dengue fever along its Honduran border may have resulted from the release of infected mosquitos by U.S. reconnaissance overflights.

• flyover (noun)
• flyover (adj)
• flyover country
• flyover state
• flypast
• overfly