Airshows: Shows, Display Teams and Who Is Arriving

Summary: Airshow pins on the map, a page for each show with what is displaying, when and what to listen on, and a live board of the aircraft arriving and leaving.

The map follows the UK’s airshows for enthusiasts: when and where each show is, what is displaying, the flying times, the arrival and departure days, and the aircraft actually turning up. It is in two places, the map’s Events section and the Airshows page.

On the Map

Switch on Airshows in the Events section of the Layers panel. Each listed show gets a pin at its venue and a line in the list. Click either for the show’s popup:

• its status — Provisional, Confirmed, Postponed or Cancelled — and the airfield;
• the Show days, and the Arrivals and Departures days, marked (expected) until they are confirmed;
• the Flying times, once the display’s NOTAM is published;
• the Display teams announced, and a link to the Official site;
• a Show details → button, which opens the show’s full page over the map.

Under the list, All shows → opens the whole list and Display teams & flypasts → opens the list of where the teams are appearing.

The Airshows Page

The same thing as a page of its own is at ukafg.co.uk/airshows/, and an Open as page link takes you there from the panel over the map. Airshow details are for UKAFG members with map access. The page has two tabs:

• Shows — every listed show with its dates and status. Filters narrow the list.
• Display teams and flypasts — each appearance of the Red Arrows, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, the Typhoon display and other teams, and the flypasts: the Team or aircraft, Where, the Time (UK), whether it is a display, a flypast or a flypast route with several venues, its NOTAM, and an On map link that takes the map to it.

A Show’s Page

• The show — where, the show days, the arrival and departure days, when the details were last checked, and the official site.
• What’s displaying — the teams and aircraft announced so far, or No teams or aircraft announced yet.
• Day by day — each day’s flying, or Not published yet.
• Listen on — the airfield’s own frequencies a show would use (tower, ground, approach and departures, or the AFIS or air/ground radio at a field with no tower) and the common air display frequencies.
• NOTAMs — the notices covering the show.
• What changed — a dated list of changes to the details, so you can see at a glance what is new.

Arrivals and Departures

From the day before the show, the Arrivals and departures board fills in as aircraft land and leave, from the map’s own ADS-B. Each row gives the time (UK), whether it Landed or Took off, the callsign, registration, type and operator, and where it came from or went to. Buttons switch between All, Arrivals and Departures, and a Military only tick box cuts it down to military aircraft.

Two things to keep in mind. Aircraft without ADS-B, or out of coverage, are missing, which includes a good many warbirds and some military aircraft. And likely beside a row means the aircraft was first seen climbing away from the field or last seen low on approach to it, rather than seen on the ground there.

How Current It Is

The details are checked several times a day. Aircraft, timings and arrival days are updated as they are published; a new show, a change of date or venue, or a cancellation is checked by us before it appears. The Last checked date on each show says when.

See also Aviation Events for the other event layers, and Event Push Alerts to be told about displays near you.