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The RAF will display the Grob Tutor and Short Tucano at British Airshows in 2019. The Tucano will be from 72 Squadron and the Tutor pilot will be Flt Lt Neil "Ski" Owczarkowski.
11.12.18
The first UK displays by the Catalina have been announced. They are at the Shuttleworth Season Premiere, Duxford Air Festival, Wales Airshow and Duxford Battle of Britain Airshow.
09.12.18
The major US and Canadian display teams have announced their display schedules for 2019. No UK airshow dates have been included.
04.12.18
Aerosuperbatics WingWalkers 3 aircraft formation, The Fireflies and the Republic P47 Thunderbolt 'Nellie' will be in the flying and static displays. There will also be Twin Squirrel helicopter flights and Axceler-8 Hovercraft Rides.
02.12.18
Kennet Aviation will oversee the restoration of PR Spitfire AA810, which may be flying by 2023. They also hope to display their AD-4A Skyraider and Seafire Mk.XVII in 2019.
02.12.18
Dunsfold Wings and Wheels will move from its traditional August date to June 15th and 16th in 2019
28.11.18
The two Mirage jets of the Couteau Delta will be missing from the display circuit in 2019.
27.11.18
A Lithuanian Air Force Aero L-39C will make its UK flying display debut at the Royal Navy International Air Day on 13th July. Their C-27J Spartan and Mi-8UTV Hip will be on static display.
27.11.18
The Duxford Air Festival will be on 25th & 26th May 2019. The Battle of Britain Airshow will be on 21st & 22nd September. Flying Legends is on 13th & 14th July.
19.11.18
Flying Legends will be on 13th & 14th July 2019
17.11.18
The organisers have expressed a preference for 31st August as a date for a possible Kircaldy Airshow
15.11.18
Saturday Super Earlybird tickets for RIAT have sold out. Super Earlybird are still available for Friday and Sunday.
14.11.18
DevonLive is reporting that the Council has made a commitment to the Torbay Airshow, which will definitely go ahead, but it still needs financial help.
06.11.18
Shoot Aviation have announced that their Messerschmitt Bf108 has been repaired, modified and registered as G-OTME and will fly in the 2019 display season. They already have a similar aircraft, G-ETME.
05.11.18
The Rhyl Airshow 2019 will be on 24th & 25th August.
02.11.18
Four pilots will join the Red Arrows for the 2019 season. They are Flight Lieutenants Damo Green (Red 2), David Simmonds (Red 3) and Gregor Ogston (Red 4), who are joining the Red Arrows for the first time, and Squadron Leader Steve Morris (Red 5) who returns for his second tour.
02.11.2018
Mike Ling, ex-Red 10, was due to join the Blades last year but reverted to the Red Arrows to substitute for Red 3 throughout the 2018 season. His delayed membership of the Blades really has now begun.
31.10.18
A rare North American NA-64 Yale will be in the flying and the static displays at the Abingdon Air and Country Show on May 5th.
28.05.18
Flt Lt Jim Peterson has handed over to Flt Lt Nick Callinswood, the new Typhoon display pilot for the 2019 season.
12.10.18
Four Red Arrows pilots have retired from the team including Squadron Leader Mike Ling, the longest-serving Red Arrows pilot, who completed 10 seasons as pilot or supervisor, made 2,585 flights, flew 699 displays and has flown the Red Hawk in 46 countries.
12.10.18
The Southport Airshow 2019 will be on 6th - 8th September
05.10.18
Shuttleworth House will not be open to the public on October 7th, the day of the Season Finale. The vintage buses will still be running and will make a round trip to the house and back.
28.09.18
The organisers are considering a series of air displays rather than one big airshow for 2019.
27.09.18
The World War One Aircraft Heritage Trust (WAHT) has brought an Albatros DVa back to the UK. It has been at Old Warden since Wednesday 19th September.
19.09.18
Mk 1 Hurricane V7497, recently restored by Hawker Restorations Ltd., is now at ARC in Duxford.
14.09.18
Bournemouth's Airshow next year will be on 29th August - 1st September
02.09.18
The Typhoon will perform a flypast on each of the two days. There will be no other jets at the Biggin Hill FoF. A provisional timetable has been published.
14.08.18
Norwegian Spitfire Foundation's Mustang 'The Shark' has been added to the flying displays at the Jersey International Air Display
04.08.18
Two pilots in personal jetsuits from Gravity will be flying at the Bournemouth Air Festival. One pilot has been seen at Goodwood Festival of Speed and Farnborough International Airshow.
04.08.18
G-Force Aeros, The full-size and model Extras flying together, will return to the Biggin Hill Festival of Flight this year.
25.07.18
The Fireflies and the Twisters will perform a joint display at Bournemouth.
25.07.18
The Westland Whirlwind is amongst the latest additions to the flying list at Dunsfold Wings 'n Wheels. The full list is on their web site.
24.07.18
The full programme for the three days of the Sunderland International Airshow is on their web site.
23.07.18
The flying list for the Battle of Britain Airshow has been released. It is on the show's web site
20.07.18
Spitfires G-BUOS and G-IBSY are the latest additions to the display aircraft. 15 Spitfires are now due to fly: 51 aircraft in total.
11.07.18
The Wales Airshow will be held in Swansea Bay on 6th and 7th July next year.
09.07.18
02-06.07.18
The full flying line-up for Airbourne has been announced. See it on their web site and on ours.
02.07.18
Apollo 15 Astronaut Al Worden, who made the first spacewalk in deep space, will be at the Air Tattoo this year. See him in the Techno Zone.
02.07.18
28-30.06.18
The Breitling Jet Team, the world’s largest professional civilian flight team flying jets, are due to perform three daytime displays and one dusk display at the Bournemouth Air Festival. These are the only displays the team are currently due to perform in the UK in 2018.
27.06.18
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems’ MQ-9B SkyGuardian is due to take off from its base in North Dakota for a 4,000 mile journey to land at RAF Fairford on 11th June in time to become a static display at RIAT. It will be the first civilian-registered Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) to make a transatlantic flight and land in the UK.
25.06.18
A former Royal Navy Search and Rescue Sea King HU5, now operated by HeliOperations, has been added to the static displays at Yeovilton Air Day
25.06.18
The Curtiss-Wright P-36C, G-CIXJ, has been withdrawn from the flying displays at Flying Legends
25.06.18
Aerobatic Tactics: Boeing Stearman and Wingwalker, has been added to the flying displays at the Old Buckenham Airshow
25.06.18
The Fireflies have announced their schedule of daytime and twilight displays. The schedule is on the Fireflies web site.
18.06.18
North American P-51B Mustang 'Berlin Express' has been withdrawn from Flying Legends
18.06.18
The 2019 Abingdon Air and Country Show will be on 5th May
16.06.18
The following displays have been added since 11th June (flying unless stated)
11-17.06.18
The RAF Cosford Air Show 2019 will be on June 9th. See our review of the 2018 RAF Cosford Air Show.
10.06.18
Mike Ling, longest serving Red Arrows pilot and long-time Red 10, returned to the Red Arrows, taking the Red 3 position, for the 2018 season, substituting for the injured Flt Lt David Stark. Mike's membership of The Blades has been deferred until 2019.
10.04.18
Mustang 'Miss Velma', which was damaged in an emergency landing in a nearby field when the engine cut out at Flying Legends 2017, will be back at Flying Legends this year.
02.04.18
Plans mooted several months ago for a 2-day, 2-venue Teignmouth and Dawlish Airshow have been deferred until 2019 because time has run out to get the show off the ground this year. Hopes are high for an inaugural show next year.
29.03.18
There will be no Northumberland Wings & Wheels in 2018 but the organisers hope to bring it back in 2019.
21.03.18
The Classic Formation, comprising a DC3 and 3 Beech 18s have been added to the Flying Legends display schedule
21.03.18
There is official confirmation that, in an accident involving a Red Arrows Hawk T1 shortly after take-off from RAF Valley, North Wales, at around 13.50 on 20th March the pilot, Flt Lt David Stark, ejected sustaining injuries but the engineer, Corporal Jonathan Bayliss, who was the passenger, did not survive. RIP, Sir.
24-21.03.18
Mk V Spitfire AR501 was flown for the first time today since undergoing renovation at Old Warden. Stu Goldspink was the pilot for the 15 minute flight.
20.03.18
P-51B Mustang ‘Berlin Express’, which was flown over from the USA for Flying Legends 2017 but lost its canopy on the Saturday, is back in the flying displays for 2018
15.03.18
The French Mustang F-AZXS is going to a new owner in the USA. Although based in France, Moonbeam McSwine was seen at UK airshows. This picture is from Flying Legends 2015.
10.03.18
USS Lexington and several warbirds have been discovered by Paul Allen Expeditions about 2 miles below the Coral Sea near Australia. So far, 11 of the 35 planes on board have been found. There are photos on The Aerospace Geek's Facebook page.
05.03.18
The building and testing of 'The People's Mosquito', a de Havilland Mosquito FB.Vl, has been entrusted to Retrotec Ltd.
05.03.18
Ex-Hangar 11's 'Hurribomber' BE505 "Pegs" is to be converted into a 2-seater Hurricane by Hawker Restorations, with the prospect that passengers will one day be able to buy flights.
01.03.18
26.02.18
The ban on straight-wing ex-military jets performing aerobatic manoeuvres will end when the CAA issues a revised safety notice on 28th February. The ban on aerobatics by swept-wing jets will remain in place.
15.02.18
31.01.18
This North American P-51D Mustang, until recently operated by the Old Flying Machine Company and based at Duxford alongside their Spitfire MH434, has been sold and now belongs to a private owner in Turkey.
18.01.18
The 'Hurribomber' previously owned by Peter Teichman (Hangar 11) was sold just before Christmas.
It has now been registered by Hawker Restorations Ltd., based in Ipswich, the company that owned it prior to Hangar 11 and that restored it. There had been fears that the Hurribomber would go abroad.
17.01.18
07.01.18
The event was to have been held at Compton Abbas on May 12-13, but will not now be held there. The organisers are looking for a new venue and the date may also change.
31.12.17
The local authority have withdrawn funding for the 2019 Scottish International Airshow, Ayr. The 2018 show will go ahead and the 2020 show will be OK as long as the organisers meet some Council demands, according to a newspaper report.
19.12.17
14.12.17
Lt. Col. Kevin "Lowen" Walsh is the new leader of the Thunderbirds, replacing Lt Col Jason Heard, who was "relieved of duty".
13.12.17
In September 2016, on its return from France, the Albatros DVa made an unplanned landing and ended up-side down in a field near Headcorn. It has since been returned to New Zealand where it is undergoing repairs. The Albatros could come back to the UK, with an Se5a, if £15,000 can be raised by the WW1 Aviation Heritage Trust to pay for the transit and reassembly.
19.11.17
The team hoping to restore RB396 to flight have purchased a genuine four blade Typhoon/Tempest spinner, thought to be the only one in the world, and a complete rear empennage, tail unit and rudder. Other items, including a complete anti shimmy tail wheel set up and the tail wheel doors from a Tempest ll, were also purchased.
It is hoped that the build could start in the first half of 2018.
There is more on this project on their own website.
17.11.17
The 2018 Skylive airshow has been cancelled after the airport's owners 'pulled the plug'.
Many events will be held throughout the UK in 2018 to mark the centenary of the RAF. There is a map and list on the RAF100 part of the MOD web site.
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