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Flying Legends is a two-day airshow in England, originally held in July every year. The airshow features only warbird and vintage aircraft, such as the Supermarine Spitfire, North American P-51 Mustang and Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Sally B. It is run by The Fighter Collection, based at Duxford Aerodrome, Cambridgeshire, formerly RAF Duxford.
The 2013 airshow saw the celebration of the event's 20th anniversary. [2] Following the cancellation of the airshows in 2020, 2021 & 2022, the event moved from its long-standing former home at Duxford Aerodrome to RAF Church Fenton in North Yorkshire for July 2023.
June 18 – Christen Eagle II aircraft crashed into the River Wisla at the Air Show in Plock, Poland. The pilot Marek Szufa who was also a pilot of Boeing 767 in Polish airlines LOT died three hours later in a hospital. In his life he spent 20,000 hours in the air and took part in many air shows and championships. [155]
RIAT 2021 was scheduled to take place from 16–18 July 2021, and was due to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the show. However, it was cancelled for the second year running due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and the uncertainty of restrictions on both large crowds and international travel being in place by then.
The U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels are shown flying over Naval Air Station Lemoore in 2019. The California Capital Airshow announced Friday that the Blue Angels would headline their spring 2025 event.
The U.S. 157th Air Refueling Wing, stationed at the base, anticipated 80,000 people in total will attend the air shows Saturday and Sunday, similar to attendance at the last air shows in 2021.
Hurricanes and Spitfires of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at the Duxford Air Show, May 2007. Duxford remains an active airfield (IATA: QFO, ICAO: EGSU) and maintains two parallel runways; an unpaved 880 m (2,890 ft) grass strip, and a concrete runway with a length of 1,503 m (4,931 ft), [30] both oriented at 060/240-degrees. [31]
The 2025 dates for the Milwaukee Air Show are little less crowded calendar-wise than they were in 2024, when the air show shared Milwaukee's lakefront with the Harley-Davidson Homecoming Festival.