Bournemouth, Events & Entertainment | Posted on July 15th, 2024 | return to news
Swedish fighter jets to soar over Bournemouth Air Festival
The Saab Viggen and Saab Draken will be giving stunning displays at this year’s festival which runs from Thursday 29 until Saturday 31 August.
Visitors to Bournemouth Air Festival – which runs from Thursday 29 until Saturday 31 August – will be able to enjoy stunning aerial displays from two formidable Swedish fighter jets.
The Saab Viggen and Saab Draken are the latest aircraft to be unveiled for the 16th festival and it will be the first time these renowned aircraft will have flown at the event together.
This year boasts a strong line up of air displays, led by the RAF’s Typhoon, which has been repainted to mark 80 years since the D-Day landings, the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944.
The Red Devils, the Army’s world-class parachute display team, also played a historic role in the D-Day landings and will be performing at this year’s festival.
Festival goers can also look forward to displays from the B-17 “Sally B” Flying Fortress, the last remaining airworthy B-17 in Europe, and crowd favourites the AeroSuperBatics WingWalkers and Rich Goodwin in his Jet Pitts Muscle Biplane.
Cllr Millie Earl, deputy leader, said: “We are thrilled to have the Saab Viggen and Draken jets at this year’s Bournemouth Air Festival, alongside an exciting line up of other iconic aircraft.
“There will be entertainment on the ground, including a bigger interactive Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) Village, an Armed Forces village, fairground rides, food stalls, a dive tank, fireworks and more.”
The Saab Viggen and Saab Draken will be sponsored by Aerobytes, a flight-safety company based in UK, who will also be supporting Rich Goodwin’s Jet Pitts.
Aerobytes director Eddie Forrester said: “These historic jets are quite unlike anything most UK audiences will have seen before. They look like something from Star Wars and are – shall we say – a tad noisy. Bring your ear plugs.”
A full list of the aerial displays planned for 2024 will feature in this year’s special souvenir programme, available to purchase soon from a wide selection of local retailers, or to pre-order now at bournemouthair.co.uk/programme.
BCP Council has worked with the business community to sustainably fund and manage the festival in 2024 and beyond, through a mixture of sponsorship and other commercial activity.
The council is currently making good progress towards its funding target having secured South Western Railway as a prime sponsor for this year’s air festival.
The air festival team are keen to hear from other sponsors, traders and exhibitors who would like to be a part of the 2024 festival.
Interested parties should email Ali Perrins, event manager, at alison.perrins@bcpcouncil.gov.uk or apply online here: bournemouthair.co.uk/commercial/
View the sponsorship prospectus on the Air Festival website.
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