{"id":2801,"date":"2024-03-03T14:45:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T14:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/?p=2801"},"modified":"2024-03-03T14:45:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T14:45:57","slug":"first-formation-display-team-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/uk-airshow-news\/first-formation-display-team-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"First formation display team confirmed&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/article-images-24\/RIAT-Midnight-Hawks.jpg\" alt=\"RIAT Midnight Hawks\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Midnight Hawks are confirmed!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here at RIAT HQ, we are thrilled to announce our first formation display team, with the Finnish Air Force\u2019s Midnight Hawks joining us for the first time since 2017.<br \/>\nWe\u2019re sure the four-ship aerobatics team will be a popular addition for visitors at RAF Fairford this year.<\/p>\n<p>This week we also revealed two aircraft for the static display, with the first being a retired Turbo Firecat (shown left), which making its RIAT debut after recently retiring from service as a water bomber for S\u00e9curit\u00e9 Civile in France. Secondly, we have an ex-QinetiQ Gazelle from Gazelle Squadron joining under our Pushing the Boundaries in Air and Space theme.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.airtattoo.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.airtattoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Midnight Hawks are confirmed! Here at RIAT HQ, we are thrilled to announce our first formation display team, with the Finnish Air Force\u2019s Midnight Hawks joining us for the first time since 2017. We\u2019re sure the four-ship aerobatics team will be a popular addition for visitors at RAF Fairford this year. This week we &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/uk-airshow-news\/first-formation-display-team-confirmed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First formation display team confirmed&#8230;<\/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":[336,61,10,179],"class_list":["post-2801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk-airshow-news","tag-336","tag-march","tag-news","tag-royal-international-air-tattoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801","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=2801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2802,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions\/2802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}