2024 sees the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows, celebrate their 60th Display Season. The season also sees the team return to North America with displays at a number of Canadian events to help mark the Royal Canadian Air Force’s centenary.
The team will return to a full nine-ship for the first time since 2021 and this year’s pilots are:
- Red 1 – Squadron Leader Jon Bond
- Red 2 – Squadron Leader Chris McCann
- Red 3 – Flight Lieutenant Dustin Wales
- Red 4 – Flight Lieutenant Ollie Suckling
- Red 5 – Flight Lieutenant George Hobday
- Red 6 – Flight Lieutenant Stuart Roberts
- Red 7 – Squadron Leader Tom Hansford
- Red 8 – Flight Lieutenant Richard Walker
- Red 9 – Flight Lieutenant Patrick Kershaw
- Red 10 – Squadron Leader Grahame Muscat
At the time of writing, their display season takes in the following events:
May
- 21st – Battle of Crete Commemoration, Souda Bay, Greece
- 25th – Meeting Aérien International Du Grand Est, Chambley, France
- 31st – Midlands Air Festival, Ragley Hall, Warwickshire
June
- 1st-2nd – Midlands Air Festival, Ragley Hall, Warwickshire
- 1st – English Riviera Airshow, Paighton, Devon
- 2nd – IWM Duxford Summer Airshow, Cambridgeshire
- 5th – D-Day 80th National Commemorative Event Flypast, Portsmouth, Hampshire
- 6th – D-Day 80th National Commemorative Event Flypast, Normandy, France
- 7th – Isle of Man TT Races, Douglas, Isle of Man
- 9th – RAF Cosford Air Show, Shropshire
- 13th – Guernsey Battle of Britain Air Display, Channel Islands
- 15th – HM The King’s Birthday Flypast, London (flypast-only)
- 16th – Sola Airshow, Norway
- 22nd – The Scottish Traditional Boat Festival, Portsoy, Scotland
- 22nd – Northern Ireland Armed Forces Day, Jordanstown, Newtownabbey
- 23rd – Sywell Airshow 2024, Northamptonshire
- 29th – North East Lincolnshire Armed Forces Weekend, Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire
- 29th – Shuttleworth Festival of Flight, Old Warden, Bedfordshire
- 30th – Folkestone Armed Forces’ Day, Kent
- 30th – Isle of Wight Armed Forces Day, Ryde, IOW
July
- 5th – Battle of Britain Airshow, Headcorn, Kent
- 6th – Teignmouth Airshow, Devon
- 6th – Somerset Armed Forces Day Flypast, Taunton, Somerset
- 6th – Wales Airshow, Swansea, South Wales
- 7th – British Grand Prix, Silverstone, Northamptonshire
- 11th-12th – Goodwood Festival of Speed, West Sussex
- 13th-14th – Southport Airshow, Lancashire
- 19th-21st – Royal International Air Tattoo, RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire
- 27th – Farnborough International Airshow, Hampshire (Flypast)
August
- 10th – Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo – (flypast-only)
- 10th-11th – Blackpool Airshow, Lancashire
- 15th – Airbourne, Eastbourne International Airshow, East Sussex
- 24th-25th – Air Show Atlantic, Canadian Forces Base Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Canada
- 28th – Niagara Falls Flypast, Ontario, Canada
- 31st – Canadian International Air Show, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
September
- 1st – Canadian International Air Show, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- 4th – Ottawa Flypast, Ontario, Canada
- 6th-8th – Aero Gatineau-Ottawa, Gatineau-Ottawa Executive Airport, Quebec, Canada
- 13th-15th – Airshow London, London International Airport, Ontario, Canada
- 18th – Montreal Flypast, Quebec, Canada
October
- 5th – IWM Duxford Flying Finale, Cambridgeshire
