List of air shows

This is a list of air shows throughout the world.

Major air shows

Royal International Air Tattoo, England

RAF Red Arrows, RAF Waddington Airshow 2013

Paris Air Show

(Le Bourget Air Show) in France, the world's oldest. Established in 1909 and attracting approximately 400,000 visitors, it is held in June on odd-numbered years, alternating with the British Farnborough Airshow held in July on even-numbered years.

Internationale Luft- und Raumfahrtausstellung

(ILA) (Berlin Air Show) is a large air and aerospace trade show, which, established in 1909, claims (along with Paris) to be the world's oldest.

Royal International Air Tattoo

The world's largest military air show is the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, United Kingdom. The RIAT gathers military aircraft and military display teams from all over the world.

MAKS

The biggest air show and aerospace trade show in Russia, MAKS, is an international air show held near Moscow on Zhukovskiy LII air field. The first show, Mosaeroshow-92, was held in 1992. Since 1993, it was renamed to its current name and is held on odd years.

Waddington International Air Show

The Royal Air Force's largest air show, is held annually at RAF Waddington, United Kingdom. The airshow features participants from across the world and showcases the work of the RAF and its allies.

Sunderland International Airshow

Europe's largest free annual air show is the Sunderland International Airshow which takes place over Roker and Seaburn sea front . It takes place over the course of theee days each July.

Airbourne: Eastbourne International Airshow

The world's biggest free seafront air show.

Kecskemét Air Show

One of East Europe's biggest air shows, Kecskemét Air Show is held at Kecskemét, Hungary.

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh

Organized by the Experimental Aircraft Association at Oshkosh, Wisconsin), is famous for its crowded fly-in of visitors. The air show includes multiple displays as well as talks by influential people in aviation.

Sun 'n Fun

The annual Sun 'n Fun air show in Lakeland, Florida, is an independent corporation, famous for its crowded fly-in of visitors held usually during the second or third week of April.

Reno Air Races

Also known as the National Championship Air Races, take place annually in September at the Reno Stead Airport a few miles north of Reno, Nevada. It includes several days of qualifying followed by four and a half days of multi-aircraft heat racing culminating in the Unlimited Class Gold Race on Sunday afternoon. The event also features civil airshow acts and military flight demonstrations between races, plus vendor areas and a large civil and military static aircraft display.

Aero India

A biennial air show held in Bangalore, India, at the Yelahanka Air Force Station. It was first held in the year 1996 and since then has become one of the largest air shows in the world. In 2009 it had 592 exhibitors from over 25 countries.^[1] It is the largest air show in Asia.^[2]

Tannkosh

The closest European equivalent to Oshkosh is Tannkosh, held annually at Tannheim airfield in Germany. Southport Airshow The largest air show in the North West of England.

Aerosport air show

Created in 1993 at Igualada, is the only Spanish airshow dedicated to corporate and sport aircraft.

Abbotsford International Airshow

Canada's largest airshow.

Miramar Air Show

There are several annual air shows in the United States that display a variety of modern military aircraft, including the Miramar Air Show every October

Aviation Nation

at Nellis AFB every November.

CAF Airsho

The largest Warbird airshow is held by the Commemorative Air Force at its annual CAF Airsho in Midland, Texas, each October.

Dubai Airshow

Held since 1989 each November on odd-numbered years, after every Paris Air Show.

Asian Aerospace

Held in Singapore since its inception in 1981, until moving to Hong Kong in 2007.

Singapore Airshow

Held in February on even-numbered years at the Changi Exhibition Centre which was the source of the dispute between Asian Aerospace organisers.

Langkawi International Maritime and Air Show

Held at Langkawi Island, Malaysia, on odd-numbered years since 1991.

A Douglas C-54 Skymaster, called Spirit of Freedom, currently operated as a flying museum regarding the Berlin Airlift, at a Lancaster, Ohio air show.

Istanbul Airshow

Organized biannually at Istanbul Ataturk Airport since 1996, is the single "Civil Only" aviation and airports exhibition in Eurasia.

China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition

The largest airshow in mainland China. It has been held in even years in Zhuhai, Guangdong since 1996.

Australian International Airshow

Held every two years at Avalon Airport.

Warbirds over Wanaka

A military oriented show is held every two years in Wanaka, New Zealand.

FIDAE

(Feria Internacional Del Aire y Del Espacio) Latin America's best air show, since 1980, is held at Santiago, Chile. FIDAE takes place at Comodoro Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport in March every two years.

Air/Space America 88

(San Diego, California, U.S.)

Airdrie Regional Airshow

(Airdrie, Alberta, Canada)

AirShow San Diego

(Formerly Wings over Gillespie Commemorative Air Force static airshow, El Cajon, California, U.S.)

Antique Aircraft Fly-In and Airshow

(Fredericksburg, Virginia, U.S.) This annual air show was discontinued in the early 1980s, with the last event taking place in 1983.

Aviation Calgary Expo

(Calgary, Alberta, Canada); static airshow, with DC-3 flights

Serbian Air Show 

Batajnica Air Base (Belgrade, Serbia)

Bethpage Air Show

(Jones Beach State Park, New York, U.S.)

Boshears Skyfest (Augusta, Georgia U.S.)

Bournemouth Air Festival

(United Kingdom)

California International Airshow

(Salinas, California, U.S.) -->

Canadian International Air Show

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Charleston Air Force Base Air Expo

(Charleston Field, North Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.)

Chicago Air & Water Show

(Chicago, Illinois, U.S.)

Classic Fighters

(Blenheim, New Zealand)

Cleveland National Air Show

(Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.)

Culpeper Airfest

(Culpeper, Virginia, U.S.), dubbed "The Best Little Airshow in the East," this event is held normally on the second Saturday in October. The event features a massive warbird demonstration, made up of mostly of T-6 Texans, and more recently, a performance of the world's only civilian-owned Harrier.

Danish Air Show

(Denmark)

Dubai Airshow

(Dubai, United Arab Emirates)

Fleet Week

(various port cities, U.S.)

The Flying Circus

(Bealeton, Virginia, U.S.), a weekly barnstorming airshow held on Sundays from May through October. Vintage biplane rides are also available.

ILA Berlin Air Show

(Internationale Luft- und Raumfahrtausstellung) (Berlin, Germany)

Ilopango Air Show

(Ilopango International Airport, Ilopango, El Salvador)

Indonesia Airshow

Held in June 1986 at the Kemayoran airport and June 1996 at Soekarno-Hatta International airport

Iran Kish Air Show

(Kish, Iran)

Jersey International Air Display

(Jersey)

Kavala AirSea Show

(Kavala, Greece)

Langkawi International Maritime and Air Show

(Langkawi, Malaysia)

Malta International Airshow

(Luqa, Malta)

Martinique Air Show

(Martinique, French West Indies)

Northwest EAA Fly-In

(Arlington, Washington, U.S.)

Oregon International Air Show

(Hillsboro, Oregon, U.S.)

Quad City Airshow

(Davenport, Iowa), U.S.)

Radom Air Show

(Radom, Poland)

RAFA Shoreham Airshow

(Shoreham, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom)

B-25 Mitchell and B-17, Shoreham Airshow 2013

Redhill Airshow

(Redhill, Surrey, England, United Kingdom)

Reno Air Races

(Reno, Nevada, U.S.)

Roskilde Airshow

(Roskilde Airport, Roskilde, Denmark)

Rotorfest

All helicopter air show (Brandywine Airport, West Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.)

Royal Netherlands Air Force

open days (various military airports in the Netherlands)

Seafair

(Seattle, Washington, U.S.)

Seething Airfield Charity Airday

(Seething, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom)

Selfridge Air National Guard Base

Airshow (Detroit, Michigan, U.S.)

Southport Airshow

(Southport, England)

Sunderland International Airshow

(Seaburn, Sunderland, England, United Kingdom)

Thunder Over Louisville

(Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.)

Thunder over the Boardwalk

(Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S.)

Tico Warbird Airshow

(Titusville, Florida, U.S.)

Vectren Dayton Air Show

(Dayton, Ohio, U.S.)

Volkel in de Wolken Hamilton Airshow

(Volkel Air Base, Netherlands)

Warbirds over Wanaka

(Wanaka, New Zealand)

Windsor International Air Show

(Windsor, Ontario, Canada)

Wings and Wheels

(Dunsfold Park, Surrey, England, United Kingdom)

Wings Over Houston

(Ellington Airport, Houston, Texas, U.S.)

Wings Over Wayne

(Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, Goldsboro, North Carolina, U.S.)

Wings Over Pittsburgh

(Pittsburgh International Airport, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.)

Ghana Air Show

The only air show in West Africa is held in Ghana each year (light aviation) in November, hosted by WAASPS.

Historic air shows

• 1909: The "Internationale Luftschiffahrt-Ausstellung" was first held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from July 10 to October 17, 1909, later becoming the Internationale Luft- und Raumfahrtausstellung (ILA) and as such can lay claim to being the oldest aviation show in the world.
• 1909: Grande Semaine d'Aviation de la Champagne at Reims in France in August 1909. Attended by most of the important aviators of the time, including Glenn Curtiss, who won the Gordon Bennett Trophy competition. This show inspired John Moisant.
• 1910: Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field from January 10 to January 20, 1910. Participants included Glenn Curtiss, Charles Hamilton, Lincoln Beachey and Louis Paulhan. The Los Angeles Times called it "one of the greatest public events in the history of the West."
• 1910: Harvard-Boston Aero Meet at the Harvard Aviation Field in Atlantic, Massachusetts, from September 3 to September 13, 1910. It was the first major air event in the eastern United States and offered $90,000 in prizes and appearance fees. Participants included the Wright brothers, the Glenn Curtiss exhibition teams and Claude Grahame-White. This show inspired Harriet Quimby to become the first female pilot in the United States.
• 1910: Belmont International Aviation Tournament offered approximately $75,000 in prize money. Participants included Count Jacques de Lesseps, Roland Garros, Claude Grahame-White, Glenn Curtiss, John Moisant, Arch Hoxsey, Ralph Johnstone and Charles Hamilton.
• 1925–1931: Ford National Reliability Air Tour offered the Edsel B. Ford Trophy; it was inscribed, "This trophy is offered to encourage the up-building of commercial aviation as a medium of transportation."
• 1945-1950: The "Thrasher Brothers Aerial Circus" featuring the Twin Ercoupe and the "World's Smallest Airport", was born after World War II when the oldest brother, Grady Thrasher, purchased some surplus planes — Piper Cubs, a Stearman biplane and two Ercoupes — from the U.S. Army for $200 to $500 each and a new 1946 Ford car. The three brothers performed aerial stunts, including one in which Bud Thrasher stood on top of the plane as it coursed the skies. Their most popular stunt was landing a plane on a wooden platform on top of a moving car, then taking off again.
• 1977: Golden Wings over Richmond (October 15–16, 1977), Richmond, Virginia, U.S. - This mega air event commemorated the 50th anniversary (1927-1977) of both Charles Lindbergh's historic flight from New York to Paris and of Richmond International Airport (then known as Byrd International Airport). Festivities included a World War I dogfighting reenactment, a chronological fly-in of various historical aircraft from the 1900s up to the present day, performances of top aerobatic acts of the day; and a flight demonstration of the Concorde, which marked the aircraft's only visit to Richmond. A severe thunderstorm shortened the October 16th show.

See also

• Hot air balloon festival
• List of air show accidents and incidents

External Links

• KML (Google Earth geolocations) file of Air Shows

References