{"id":2573,"date":"2023-03-31T12:32:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T12:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/?p=2573"},"modified":"2023-03-31T12:32:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T12:32:17","slug":"exciting-returns-for-some-riat-favourites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/uk-airshow-news\/exciting-returns-for-some-riat-favourites\/","title":{"rendered":"Exciting returns for some RIAT favourites!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/article-images-23\/RIAT-Harrier.jpg\" alt=\"Harrier at RIAT\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are extremely excited to announce the participation of the Spanish Navy at RIAT23 with their McDonnell Douglas EAV-8B Harrier II aircraft! The iconic &#8216;Jump Jet&#8217; will perform a solo flying display, with another example on static display and we&#8217;re looking forward to welcoming these very special jets back to RAF Fairford.<\/p>\n<p>Another rare appearance in the flying display will come courtesy of the Royal Danish Air Force, with their F-16 solo display. This is the first time we&#8217;ll have seen the Danish Fighting Falcon perform in the flying display since 2011 and they plan to use their spectacularly painted &#8216;Dannebrog&#8217;. They&#8217;ll also be bringing a twin-seat F-16BM for static display.<\/p>\n<p>This week we&#8217;ve also added a small number of civilian aircraft to the static displays, including what will probably be this year&#8217;s smallest aircraft, a Slingsby Nipper!<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are on sale for all days, with a four hour flying display on Friday, featuring many of the weekend highlights, followed by full-length flying displays featuring all aircraft on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.airtattoo.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.airtattoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are extremely excited to announce the participation of the Spanish Navy at RIAT23 with their McDonnell Douglas EAV-8B Harrier II aircraft! The iconic &#8216;Jump Jet&#8217; will perform a solo flying display, with another example on static display and we&#8217;re looking forward to welcoming these very special jets back to RAF Fairford. Another rare appearance &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/uk-airshow-news\/exciting-returns-for-some-riat-favourites\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exciting returns for some RIAT favourites!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[331,61,10,179],"class_list":["post-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk-airshow-news","tag-331","tag-march","tag-news","tag-royal-international-air-tattoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2574,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions\/2574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}