Red Arrows release 2024 Display Calendar
It's to mark their 60th season
The Red Arrows have released their 2024 Display Calendar, which will mark their 60th season.
It runs from May until October, and includes both the Blackpool and Southport air shows, as well as a number of events both at home and abroad.
Squadron Leader Jon Bond, who will lead the team as Red 1 for the first time this year, said:
“To bring together the past, present and potential future of the Red Arrows is the perfect way to launch our 60th season display calendar.
“The Red Arrows will perform a new, nine-aircraft show at locations across the UK this summer and the whole team of 140 people, both air and ground crew, are humbled by the countless individuals whom have already got in touch to say how they can’t wait to see this diamond display.
“I know, from my own childhood experience at airshows, just how many people – of all ages and backgrounds – these events bring together and how important they are to communities.
“Generations of families, up and down the country, have enjoyed watching the Red Arrows display ever since the first public show in 1965 and this 60th season will remain faithful to our aims – to entertain, inform and inspire.”
Training for the Red Arrows’ new season is continuing at RAF Waddington, with the first public appearance of the diamond campaign scheduled for late-May.
Here are a list of the dates where you can see the Red Arrows events:
(Unless otherwise stated, these dates are for aerobatic shows at public events rather than flypasts. Details are subject to change and further displays may be added at a later stage)
May 21 Battle of Crete, Souda Bay, Greece
May 25 Meeting Aérien International Du Grand Est, Chambley, France
May 31, June 1 and June 2 Midlands Air Festival
June 1 English Riviera Airshow
June 2 IWM Duxford D-Day 80
June 5 D-Day 80th National Commemorative Event Flypast, Portsmouth
June 6 D-Day 80th National Commemorative Event Flypast Normandy, France
June 7 Isle of Man TT
June 9 RAF Cosford Air Show
June 13 Guernsey Air Display
June 15 HM The King’s Birthday Flypast, London (flypast-only)
June 16 Sola Airshow, Norway
June 22 The Scottish Traditional Boat Festival, Portsoy
June 23 Sywell Airshow
June 29 Cleethorpes Armed Forces’ Weekend
June 29 Shuttleworth Festival of Flight
June 30 Folkestone Armed Forces’ Day
July 5 Headcorn Battle of Britain Airshow
July 6 The Wales Airshow, Swansea
July 6 Teignmouth Air Show
July 7 F1 British Grand Prix, Silverstone
July 11 and 12 Goodwood Festival of Speed
July 13 and 14 Southport Airshow
July 19, 20 and 21 Royal International Air Tattoo
July 22 Farnborough Airshow (flypast-only)
August 10 and 11 Blackpool Airshow
August 10 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo (flypast-only)
August 15 Eastbourne International Airshow
August 24 and 25 Air Show Atlantic, Canada
August 28 Niagara Falls, Canada (flypast-only)
August 31, September 1 and 2 Canadian International Air Show, Toronto
September 4 Ottawa, Canada (flypast-only)
September 6, 7 and 8 Aero Gatineau-Ottawa, Canada
September 13, 14 and 15 Airshow London, Canada
September 18 Montréal, Canada (flypast-only)
September 20 St John’s, Canada (flypast-only)
October 5 Duxford End of Season Finale, UK