{"id":3141,"date":"2025-05-09T13:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/?p=3141"},"modified":"2025-05-09T13:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:23:06","slug":"welcome-back-to-favourites-the-royal-navy-black-cats-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/uk-airshow-news\/welcome-back-to-favourites-the-royal-navy-black-cats-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome back to favourites the Royal Navy Black Cats, and more!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/article-images-25\/RIAT-Merlin.jpg\" alt=\"RIAT Merlin\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This week we have more additions to the flying display with the Royal Navy Black Cats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Returning after wowing the crowd last year, where they picked up the Steedman Display Sword for the British participant with the most notable contribution, we can\u2019t wait to see what they have in store for you this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere and part of our Eyes in the Skies theme, we\u2019ve got a <a href=\"https:\/\/email.rafcte.com\/c\/AQiGjRUQg-caGJKF8iAgz7uvBTXVMLdqx-WjsJth68ysakpHFxNdfjpN1QRvL8hkTgWj\" target=\"_blank\">Boeing E-3F Sentry<\/a> on static courtesy of the French Air &amp; Space Force as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/email.rafcte.com\/c\/AQiGjRUQg-caGJKF8iAg0buvBZsPAzl4JLDvrinTTpxczr803Ni6VG8Qykrmji4jq3IZ\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Navy Merlin<\/a> and privately owned <a href=\"https:\/\/email.rafcte.com\/c\/AQiGjRUQg-caGJKF8iAg37uvBYypuHFO6W9OgGf3pUzNxdkALupzHWI-L-5U9Pbehxt7\" target=\"_blank\">Piper Super Cub<\/a> &#8211; which has only been seen at RIAT once before &#8211; as well as a <a href=\"https:\/\/email.rafcte.com\/c\/AQiGjRUQg-caGJKF8iAgp7yvBZFSP50ZQcR_5ZpJ4oWCZ1Pbz2qAYaJGAuqjHCumH_XF\" target=\"_blank\">Defender<\/a> from the Finnish Army. We are aware of incidents involving aircraft which are due to display at RIAT25. We await news from their respective national authorities on any impact to their appearance at the show and will update in due course.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airtattoo.com\/the-airshow\/aircraft-and-pilots\/confirmed-aircraft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View Confirmed Aircraft<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets for this year\u2019s show are flying and with aviation in the news this week following the RAF\u2019s incredible flypast to commemorate 80 years since VE Day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In total there were over 20 different types of aircraft taking part and if you\u2019d like to catch a glimpse of some of them again, you can at this year\u2019s RIAT!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Less than 2000 Saturday and 1000 Friday Tickets left&#8230; don&#8217;t miss out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Book Tickets\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airtattoo.com\/tickets-packages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we have more additions to the flying display with the Royal Navy Black Cats. Returning after wowing the crowd last year, where they picked up the Steedman Display Sword for the British participant with the most notable contribution, we can\u2019t wait to see what they have in store for you this summer. Elsewhere &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/aviation-news-uk\/uk-airshow-news\/welcome-back-to-favourites-the-royal-navy-black-cats-and-more\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome back to favourites the Royal Navy Black Cats, and more!<\/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":[341,45,10,179],"class_list":["post-3141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk-airshow-news","tag-341","tag-may","tag-news","tag-royal-international-air-tattoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141","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=3141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3142,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions\/3142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airscene.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}