{"id":2582,"date":"2023-04-06T18:36:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T18:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2023-04-06T18:36:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T18:36:01","slug":"rare-sightings-confirmed-for-riat23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/uk-airshow-news\/rare-sightings-confirmed-for-riat23\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare sightings confirmed for RIAT23!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/article-images-23\/RIAT-Gripen.jpg\" alt=\"RIAT Gripen\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We loved seeing the reaction to last week&#8217;s announcement of the Spanish Harriers, so you can imagine our excitement when we received confirmation that we will have another Harrier at this year&#8217;s show! The Italian Navy will provide one of their AV-8B+ aircraft for static display in their first appearance at RIAT since 2005!<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s not enough, we&#8217;re delighted to welcome the Czech Air Force back to RIAT: In the air we&#8217;ll be treated to a solo display from their JAS-39C Gripen, plus a tactical pairs display from their L-159 ALCA jets. They will also be bringing their Mi-171 Hip helicopter for static display.<\/p>\n<p>Joining the HM Coastguard static display area at RIAT 2023 will be two fixed-wing SAR aircraft operated by 2Excel, in the form of their King Air and DA62 aircraft.<\/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 loved seeing the reaction to last week&#8217;s announcement of the Spanish Harriers, so you can imagine our excitement when we received confirmation that we will have another Harrier at this year&#8217;s show! The Italian Navy will provide one of their AV-8B+ aircraft for static display in their first appearance at RIAT since 2005! If &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/uk-airshow-news\/rare-sightings-confirmed-for-riat23\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rare sightings confirmed for RIAT23!<\/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":[331,44,10,179],"class_list":["post-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk-airshow-news","tag-331","tag-april","tag-news","tag-royal-international-air-tattoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582","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=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2583,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions\/2583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}