Daks over Normandie 2019
Duxford, Cambridgeshire, UK 2-5th June 2019 As the home of the Imperial War Museum and Duxford Aviation Society the venue need little introduction. This rare gathering of airworthy Douglas Dakotas had been eagerly awaited as the setting off location for a re-enactment...
EBACE 2019
EBACE, Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland, 21-23 May 2019 At first it appeared that alpine storms would blight this year’s exhibition but, by mid Tuesday the skies cleared to blue and the rain abated. Apart from the understandable absence of Boeing all the majors...
South Africa AAD2018
Aerospace and Defence 2018, Waterkloof Air Force Base, Pretoria (now Tshwane) 19-23 September 2018 This biennial show celebrated 20 years in 2018 with a much enhanced air display. Seven hangars of trade exhibitions highlighted both suppliers and buyers of military hardware over...
LAA Rally 2018
Light Aircraft Association Rally 2018 Sywell, Northamptonshire 31 March – 2nd April 2018 This popular annual event is unique in the British aviation calendar and is long established at Sywell. Though dependant on the weather, this year near perfect, it attracts homebuilders...
Poland 100
Air Force Centenary Airshow, Radom, Poland 25-26th August 2018 Another Air Force, another Centenary. The annual airshow at Radom, around 100km south of Warsaw, has become a regular fixture of the European Military airshow circuit attracting attendees from across the continent. Given...
Aerobaltica 2018
Gdynia Babie Doly and seafront, Poland 18-19th August 2018 This event, on the northern Baltic coast, combines a beachfront location with a conventional airshow with the beach event running into the night. Fireworks are deployed from barges as aircraft, gyrocopters and parachutists...
Farnborough International 2018
Farnborough Airport, Hampshire, England 16th-22nd July 2018 This world famous and renowned airshow has, for years, exhibited all that is new and innovative in aviation with the famous halls reconstructed for each show. This year was the first to utilise permanent purpose-built...
RIAT 2018
Royal International Air Tattoo, RAF Fairford, England 13-15th July 2018 Now that’s what we call an airshow! Three full days of co-ordinated aerial excellence in near perfect weather shows what can be done when over forty nations gather to help celebrate the...
Finland 100
Finnish Air Force 100th Anniversary Airshow. Jyvaskyla Air Base, Central Finland, 16-17 June 2018 Finland rarely holds military airshows other than the ‘Midnight Hawks’ display team event at the Kauhava Air Force Academy. Hence, this event was eagerly awaited and attracted a considerable number...
Stow Maries WW1
Wings and Wheels Show 2018 Stow Maries, Essex, UK, 20 May 2018 This fairly recent initiative to re-open a former First World War Aerodrome and feature primarily replica aeroplanes in the context of the period fills a welcome, if belated, gap in...