One of the world’s largest military airshows, the Royal International Air Tattoo was held July 19-21 at RAF Fairford in 2019. This year’s Air Tattoo was a place of numerous flypasts celebrating anniversaries in the aviation industry, beside the always high-quality flying and static displays.
Turkish Air Force F-4 Phantoms on the static lineup, marking ’60 Years of Service’ of the Phantom II …
… and ’70th Anniversary of NATO’ with impressive tail arts
The last appearance of British Airways at the Air Tattoo was in 2013, when the airline’s first delivered Airbus A380 made a flypast with the RAF Red Arrows. This year, celebrating a landmark birthday of 100 years of the British flag carrier, a Boeing 747-400 of the company wearing the airline’s predecessor British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) livery teamed up with the Red Arrows aerobatic display team for a spectacular flypast on July 20.
Centenary flypast of the retro-painted 747 and the Red Arrows
The 70th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) was also celebrated at RIAT, with a flypast featuring aircraft from a number of NATO member nations including the UK, Belgium, France, Germany and the USA to showcase NATO’s air power capabilities.
French Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker featuring in the NATO flypast
OUR PICTURE GALLERY OF THE ROYAL INTERNATIONAL AIR TATTOO 2019:
U.S. Air Force CV-22 Osprey
Airbus A400M Atlas Demonstration
Flying display …
… of the RAF Chinook
The soviet-era fighter jets, the MiG-21 LanceR …
… and the Su-27 Flanker …
… were a big highlight of the show
Another highlight were the two Spanish Navy Harriers …
… performing an impressive display on each days of the Air Tattoo
Attack Helicopter Display Team WAH-64D Apache
Frecce Tricolori
Royal Norwegian Air Force F-16A Fighting Falcon
Finnish Air Force F/A-18C Hornet
Avro Lancaster as part of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight formation
Airbus A400M flypast with The Blades aerobatic team celebrating the 50th anniversary of Airbus
The USAF B-52H returned to the static lineup after missing last year
Qatar Emiri Air Force Boeing C-17 Globemaster III military transport aircraft
NATO E-3A AWACS on static display
Red Arrows & Patrouille de France combined ‘Concorde formation’ flypast
On Sunday the Red Arrows took off for their final display before heading to their North American tour
