{"id":2871,"date":"2024-06-09T11:43:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T11:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/?p=2871"},"modified":"2024-06-09T11:43:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T11:43:18","slug":"we-welcome-norway-and-morocco-to-riat24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/uk-airshow-news\/we-welcome-norway-and-morocco-to-riat24\/","title":{"rendered":"We welcome Norway and Morocco to RIAT24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/article-images-24\/RIAT-Yellow-Sparrow.jpg\" alt=\"RIAT Yellow Sparrow\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week has been a double announcement with the Boeing F-15QA Ababil being added to the flying programme, plus the UK debut of the Royal Norwegian Air Force\u2019s Yellow Sparrows display team!<\/p>\n<p>In addition, we have an exciting variety of aircraft on static display. From Norway, we have a pair of the new F-35A Lightnings, C-130J Hercules and AW101 SAR Queen.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Morocco, we have a pair of F-16s, the advanced Block 52 variant, for our \u2018Viper Line\u2019 static display, as we celebrate 50-years of the iconic fast jet. These jets are painted in a fantastic desert camouflage pattern and we\u2019re very excited to welcome them to RIAT 2024, the first time we\u2019ve seen aircraft from the Royal Moroccan Air Force at Fairford since the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>This week also saw the world mark 80-years since the D-Day landings and staying in line with that, we are thrilled to say we will be joined by a C-47B Dakota. In addition, we have a pair of electrically powered Pipistrel aircraft and for only the 3rd time in RIAT\u2019s history, we\u2019ve got an A-4 Skyhawk coming!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.airtattoo.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.airtattoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week has been a double announcement with the Boeing F-15QA Ababil being added to the flying programme, plus the UK debut of the Royal Norwegian Air Force\u2019s Yellow Sparrows display team! In addition, we have an exciting variety of aircraft on static display. From Norway, we have a pair of the new F-35A Lightnings, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/uk-airshow-news\/we-welcome-norway-and-morocco-to-riat24\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We welcome Norway and Morocco to RIAT24<\/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":[336,46,10,179],"class_list":["post-2871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk-airshow-news","tag-336","tag-june","tag-news","tag-royal-international-air-tattoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871","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=2871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2872,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions\/2872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}