AeroExpo 2023
Sywell Aerodrome, Northampton, UK, 8-10th June 2023 This annual festival was slightly lower on attendance than previous years. The forecast was for 700 visiting aircraft but less than half arrived and almost none stayed overnight. The hot weather and breezy conditions may...
EBACE 2023
EBACE at Palexpo, Geneva 22-24 May 2023 This years’ Convention and Exhibition attracted the regular manufacturers, primarily from Europe and the United States with an emphasis on sustainability and consideration for the environmental impact of this industry. Unfortunately the environmental lobby groups...
Microlight Trade Fair 2023
Popham Airfield, Winchester, Hampshire, UK 29-30 April 2023 This annual festival of lightweight aviation incorporates a compact trade event with lectures, talks and sales areas with a popular start to Britain’s shrinking airshow diary. Blessed with some of the best spring weather...
Northolt Photoshoot 2023
RAF Northolt night photoshoot 16 March 2023 RAF Northolt’s Night Photoshoots started in January 2009 as a way to help fund raise for the restoration of Building 27 at RAF Northolt. Building 27 was built in 1928/9 and became RAF Northolt’s Sector...
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2022
Whittman Field, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA 25-31 July 2022 This event just keeps getting bigger! Attendance: Approximately 650,000 – A record total (previous mark: 642,000 in 2019) and 7 percent above 2021’s attendance of 608,000. Total aircraft: More than 10,000 aircraft arrived at...
Farnborough 2022
Farnborough International, Hampshire, UK 18-22 July 2022 After the excitement of the Air Tattoo (see previous post), this was a cooler and toned down event; now lacking the public weekend with only the Friday for educational visitors. Sadly, those exhibitors that previously...
Royal International Air Tattoo 2022
RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire, UK 15-17th July 2022 Well, what a scorcher! Record temperatures, record crowd and a mind-blowing selection of exhibits both static and flying. After two years off the calendar a memorable return of the World’s greatest military airshow. Given the...
UK Grand Prix Helicopters
Turweston Airfield, Buckinghamshire, England, Sunday 3rd July 2022 Turweston is unusual in these days of General Aviation airfield closures in that it has grown in status over the last decade. This is partly due to it being the Headquarters of Britain’s Light...
HeliRussia-2022: a modest jubilee
The annual HeliRussia trade fair, which is held under the auspices of Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade, took place at the Crocus Expo exhibition centre in Moscow on 19th-21st May 2022 for the 15th time – a minor jubilee. In better...
EBACE 2022
European Business Aviation Exhibition, Geneva PALEXPO 23-25 May 2022 A welcome return post Covid for this international showcase for Business Aviation. Given the downturn for Commercial Airlines there is now a growth spurt for Executive travel with new models and ranges heralding...