Royal International Air Tattoo 2023 General Discussion Thread

[Mike]

never even heard of a slingsby nipper

Daz

It should be this one that's based at Inverness :- https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/10574597

[Discodaz]

never even heard of a slingsby nipper

Daz

It should be this one that's based at Inverness :- https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/10574597

cheers Mike

Daz

[Gary]

I’m surprised the Danish F-16 still has the ‘Dannebrog’ scheme applied. Would have expected the airframe to have been through depth maintenance. Nice to see anyway

[CourtneyBlockley]

Austrian Air Force not participating

Shame, really enjoyed their QRA display last year.

Great update with the harrier though.

[Discodaz]

i loved the QRA display..something different that painted a picture.

Daz

[phantom6]

All Park & view sold out that a first?

[POL]

Fairly sure it was the same last year

[phantom6]

O ok Poli stand corrected not as early perhaps

[peasus911]

Reading in Flypast that two Starfighters from Starfighters Aerospace are being sent over from the USA for the Italian 100th Anniversary airshow at Pratica di Mare.
Quoted as already on their way shipbound to Europe. Show is on 16-18th June. Wonder if there is any chance of them making an appearance for the RIAT Italian commemorations four weeks later.
I looked but couldn't see that this had already been discussed, please don't shoot me if it has.

[Kurnass]

IF (and it’s a big IF) they would come to RIAT they would come with a hefty price tag (as they would need to stay in Europe for an extra month). I would be surprised if RIAT would want to pay that amount for just 2 aircraft. Which are probably not even allowed to display?

[HenryReichert]

They stated, they want to stay in Italy until August23.
Also some unknown source from the Starfighter Corp. mentioned there will be only one Starfighter shipped (the Black 2-Seater), which is currently being deconstructed to be shipped.

[Gary]

Today's update

Following on from last week's confirmation of the Spanish Harriers, you can imagine the excitement at Douglas Bader House when we received confirmation from Italy, that we will have another Harrier at this year's show! The Italian Navy will provide one of their AV-8B+ aircraft for static display at this summer's Air Tattoo, an extremely welcome appearance as this will be the first time we've seen them at RIAT since 2005!

We're pleased to welcome the Czech Air Force back to RIAT: In the air we'll be treated to a solo display from their JAS-39C Gripen, plus a tactical pairs display from their L-159 ALCA jets. In addition, we're also very pleased to be welcoming their Mi-171 Hip helicopter for static display. The plan is for aircraft '9868' to attend which has been painted in special colours to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first flight of the Mi-8 helicopter and the 55th anniversary of the introduction of the first Mi- series helicopters into the service of the Czech Armed Forces. The aircraft's special colour scheme features different colour patterns to show how the camouflage scheme has changed on individual helicopter types over the last 5 decades.

Joining the HM Coastguard static display area at RIAT 2023 will be two fixed-wing SAR aircraft operated by 2Excel, in the form of their King Air and DA62 aircraft. This is planned to be the public debut of their new Diamond DA62 MPP in 2Excel service, adorned in red/white rescue livery.

An update regarding the participation of Patrulla Aguila at RIAT 2023; we have been informed by the team that this year they will be performing with 6 aircraft, so we have updated our participation list to reflect this.

We have been continuing discussions with a range of aircraft operators regarding the intent to bring aircraft to this year's Air Tattoo, with a number of exciting military and civilian participants on the horizon. In addition, we have been finalising arrangements for a significant number of civilian aircraft from Italy which will travel to Fairford for our ITAF100 celebrations, the first of which we will be announcing next Thursday!

Italian Harrier nice to see the Czechs too

[James Cutting]

Result, what another cracking update! Glad I'll be at arrivals for the first time this year!!

[The Star of Woo]

As P+V is sold out for all three days, will there be any tickets held back to buy on a first come, first serve basis as in previous years please?

[Gary]

Yep, Peter confirmed there will limited of tickets available each day

[PeteHemsley]

Great to see the Italian av8 announced. Hopefully a G-91 will be next....

[Discodaz]

fantastic update yet again this week.

really looking forward to the alca l-159 tactical demo.
always love to watch the gripen. and another harrier on static..wow..result!!

Daz

[jasonT1981]

Brilliant update. 2 nations bringing Harriers to a UK show is outstanding.

Shaping up to be a cracking show.

[Gary]

The FRIAT Forum 2023 write up is available in the members area, on my stupid iPhone (why oh why did I change) won't let me copy and paste

[Red-Eye-Knight]

Czech Alca have self confirmed on their display list for this season.

https://www.air-shows.org.uk/2023/04/ai ... play-2023/