.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
incorporating UKAirshows
British Airshows - the shows, the venues, the aircraft, the news
incorporating UKAirshows
August 20th - 23rd 2009
One show each year, usually the weekend before the August Bank Holiday
Bournemouth's first airshow, called the Bournemouth Air Festival, was held at the end of August 2008. It will probably retain the end August slot, but check the airshow calendar.
This free four-day air show has stolen Eastbourne Airbourne's crown as the biggest free airshow in the UK.
Like Airbourne, it is held from Thursday to Sunday along the seafront and offers sea-based events and static displays as well as military, historic and aerobatic air displays.
Bournemouth's sea front is seven miles long. The air displays can be seen from most points, including the balconies of sea front hotels, but the best viewing is from the centre of the flying line, between Bournemouth and Boscombe piers.
The festival influences all sorts of local other events, such as exhibitions, talks, and town centre displays, which take on an aviation theme.
Post Code (for sat nav) BH2 5AA will get you to Bournemouth pier.
Bournemouth is served by SouthWest trains to London and to towns in Hampshire and Dorset; Virgin trains to the north, sometimes direct and sometimes via London or Coventry and by Southern's West Coastway service to Sussex towns via Southampton.
National Express provide coach services to London, the major airports and to many towns along the south coast.