{"id":2820,"date":"2024-03-15T20:43:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T20:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2024-03-15T20:43:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T20:43:05","slug":"our-first-f-16s-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/uk-airshow-news\/our-first-f-16s-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Our first F-16s announced!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/article-images-24\/RIAT-F16.jpg\" alt=\"RIAT F16\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>This week we are pleased to unveil our first F-16s, courtesy of the Royal Danish Air Force.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Danes are the first nation to confirm attendance of the iconic fast-jet, which will feature as part of our 50th anniversary celebrations for the F-16 Fighting Falcon.<\/p>\n<p>They will be sending their solo display, flown by well-known demo pilot Teo, plus at least one other F-16 to join our international static display line-up at RAF Fairford this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Our final addition this week is a CL-604 for static display.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A British Antartic Survey Twin Otter will be joining us in July<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year we revealed that a British Antartic Survey Twin Otter will be joining us on the showground in July.<\/p>\n<p>Recently we caught up with their Air Unit Operations Coordinator Dan Beedon, to find out a little bit more about what it&#8217;s like to work at the world&#8217;s most southerly point.<\/p>\n<p>From now until the summer, we will be providing updates from a variety of people who work alongside the Twin Otter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.airtattoo.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.airtattoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we are pleased to unveil our first F-16s, courtesy of the Royal Danish Air Force. The Danes are the first nation to confirm attendance of the iconic fast-jet, which will feature as part of our 50th anniversary celebrations for the F-16 Fighting Falcon. They will be sending their solo display, flown by well-known &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/uk-airshow-news\/our-first-f-16s-announced\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our first F-16s announced!<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-2820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk-airshow-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820","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=2820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2821,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions\/2821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}