Military Flypasts over London (and surrounds)

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Collating details as they are published of the various military aircraft flypasts over London and local area, as I do – and it is about as ready as it is likely to get.

Apart from the big flypast in June for the Queen’s Birthday, there seems to be a decent flypast over St Paul’s Cathedral and Whitehall in September.

Apart from that,a couple over the RAF Museum in North London (Hendon) and Bletchley Park seems to do quite well this year. Most of the flypasts are by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, with some by the Red Arrows. The Typhoon (Eurofighter) flypast details haven’t been released yet.

I’ll update the details below as and when I get fresh information.

The from/to columns may offer a hint of the route being flown along if you can’t get to the key location. Closer to the date, I can sometimes get flight plans for some of the routes.

Date	Day	Key Location	From	To	Aircraft	Time
May 5th	Wed	Hendon (details)	RAF Westcott, Berkshire	Coningsby	Spitfire	1:20pm
May 13th	Thur	Hendon	Coningsby	Coningsby	Hurricane & Spitfire	7:30pm
May 15th	Sat	Rinkmansworth	Duxford	Old Warden	Hurricane & Spitfire	tba
May 30th	Sun	Bletchley Park	Coningsby	Southend	Lancaster	tba
May 30th	Sun	Southend-on-Sea			Red Arrows	Between 2-5pm
May 31st	Mon	Bletchley Park	Bulford, Wiltshire	Sharnbrook	Dakota	3:05pm
June 8th	Tue	RAF Northolt	Coningsby	Coningsby	Hurricane & Spitfire	tba
June 12th	Sat	Buckingham Palace, Central London	Waterbeach	RAF Northolt	Hurricane, Spitfire & Red Arrows	1pm
June 12th	Sat	RAF Northolt	Central London	Naphill	Hurricane & Spitfire	1:05pm
June 19th	Sat	Bletchley Park	Broom Leys, Coalville	Blunsdon, Swindon	Dakota	tba
July 1st	Thur	Headley Court, Nr Leatherhead, Surrey	RAF Digby	Coningsby	Spitfire	7:30pm
July 3rd	Sat	Bletchley Park	Waddington	Alconbury	Spitfire	3:25pm
July 4th	Sun	Bletchley Park	Feltwell	Milton Keynes	Dakota	3:15pm
July 6th	Tue	Buckingham Place			Red Arrows	2pm
July 18th	Sun	Bletchley Park	Henley	Wrestlingworth	Lancaster	tba
Aug 20th	Fri	Whitehall	Biggin Hill	Uxbruidge	Hurricane & Spitfire	3:30pm-4:15pm
Aug 30th	Mon	Bletchley Park	Dinton	Twinwoods	Hurricane & Spitfire	tba
Sept 4th	Sat	Bletchley Park	Chatteris	Saffron Walden	Lancaster	tba
Sept 7th	Tue	St Paul’s Cathedral, Central London	Coningsby	Coningsby	Dakota, Lancaster & Spitfire	tba
Sept 15th	Wed	Waterloo Place, Central London	Biggin Hill	Halton	Spitfire – may also include Red Arrows.	tba
Sept 19th	Sun	Westminster, Central London	Kemble	Kemble	Hurricane & Spitfire	12:30pm

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One comment

Graham Tanner says:

8 June 2010 at 5:29 pm

I assume that you are aware that you can get details of flypasts over London by looking at the NOTAMS on the AIS web-site, or the US DoD ‘JCS’ site. Usually gives dates and times.

Also, don’t forget the flypast at the start of the Lod Mayor’s Show in London, 2nd Sunday in November, at 11am.