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With precision displays, the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows, showcases the excellence of the RAF and represents the UK at home and overseas.

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Ride with the Red Arrows over London, with RAF Typhoons alongside, for a flypast over the capital marking the 80th anniversary of VE Day. 📸 AS1 Iwan Lewis #RedArrows #London #RAF #VEDay #VE80 #VEDay80

What a setting for a flypast! Go inside the cockpit with the Red Arrows for the team’s performance over Niagara Falls - completed as part of the Maple Hawk tour of Canada. #RedArrowsMapleHawk #RedArrows #NiagaraFalls #Canada #Ontario #seethingsdifferently

Speed and precision: Over Silverstone exactly on time before the F1 British Grand Prix. #RedArrows | #Silverstone | #RAF | #F1 | #BritishGP | #Avgeek | #BritishGrandPrix

A Red Arrows flypast was completed over the National Memorial Arboretum today, marking 80 years since VJ Day. The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team was humbled to perform the flypast, honouring veterans and thanking those whose heroic service helped bring a close to the war.

Extremely warm at Malta International Airport, with several hundred people since early this morning coming to take photos of the Red Arrows’ jets, meeting members of our PR team and collecting official merchandise. Display time is 1745 on day two of the show. #RedArrows | #Malta

Race day! Overhead ⁦Silverstone⁩ at 1446 for this year’s ⁦Formula 1⁩ British Grand Prix. #RedArrows | #BritishGP | #RAF | #F1 #Silverstone

Red Arrows departing Stornoway for Keflavik. 📸 AS1 Iwan Lewis #RedArrowsMapleHawk

Lining-up at RAF Brize Norton for a great day of displays. #RedArrows

Hello Crete! The Red Arrows performing a flypast over Souda yesterday afternoon. 📸 AS1 Iwan Lewis #RedArrows | #RAF | #Crete | #Greece

Save the date! Our initial summer programme of displays and events was released earlier today. Find out more here: #RedArrows #RAF #Airshows

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With the 2026 season getting underway, Air Officer Commanding No. 1 Group, Air Vice-Marshal Mark Jackson, has outlined a change that crowds will see to the Red Arrows’ display this year and how the Royal Air Force is planning for the team’s future. #RedArrows | #RAF

The Red Arrows were awarded Public Display Authority this week. The Officer Commanding explains what it means for the team as the new season begins. #RedArrows

Coronation flypast: This was the view of #London from our aircraft this afternoon. The #RedArrows were honoured to join others from across the Royal Air Force and Armed Forces taking part in celebrations marking the Coronation of Their Majesties the King and Queen. #Coronation

Good evening #Glastonbury!

Glastonbury from above! Over the festival this evening, as Pulp performed Common People. #RedArrows | #glastonbury | #glastonbury2025 | #pulp ⁦Glastonbury Festival⁩ ⁦BBC Glastonbury⁩

The view of #Edinburgh from the #RedArrows as the team performed a flypast to mark the Presentation of the Honours of #Scotland to Their Majesties The King and Queen this afternoon.

Joining up with a British aviation legend - great to share the skies today with Spitfire K5054 on its UK tour, marking the 90th anniversary of the aircraft type’s first flight and supporting the Mark Long Trust and RAF Benevolent Fund. #Spitfire90 #Spitfire #RedArrows #RAF

The Red Arrows left their Lincolnshire home of RAF Waddington earlier today to begin Exercise Springhawk. This five-week overseas deployment to Greece allows the team to perfect and polish a new display, which will be seen by millions of people this summer. #RedArrows

Paris from the cockpit: This was the incredible view of the French capital as the #RedArrows joined Patrouille de France to mark the State Visit of Their Majesties The King and Queen to #France. #Paris 🇫🇷

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Cockpit footage from yesterday’s flypast by the #RedArrows and Patrouille de France over Omaha Beach, Normandy, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. #DDay80

🔵⚪️🔴 Over Windsor Castle - the Red Arrows provide a flypast to mark the State Visit of the President of the United States to the United Kingdom. #RedArrows | #UK | #US | #POTUS | #StateVisit | #USinUK | #RAF | #Windsor

Exercise Springhawk begins! 🇬🇧🇬🇷 The Red Arrows have arrived in Greece - home for the next few weeks as our focused, final pre-season training phase gets underway. #RedArrows | #RAF

Look out for a special link-up in April to celebrate #Spitfire90 #RedArrows | #RAF

Hello #Dublin! Cockpit footage of the #RedArrows arriving in the Republic of Ireland yesterday. The team will perform at the Bray Air Display this afternoon at 1500. #BrayAirDisplay

Sara Cox is down there somewhere…! Reds 6 and 7 went in search of Sara Cox during a training sortie - passing over North Yorkshire to wish the presenter luck. The ⁦BBC Radio 2⁩ host is on the final day of an epic 135-mile ⁦BBC Children in Need⁩ challenge run. #SaraCIN #RedArrows

Flying over the #GreatNorthRun - this is what today’s flypast for the big event looked like from the #RedArrows cockpit! Spot many landmarks, from #Newcastle United’s St James’ Park to the Sage #Gateshead.

🔴🔵⚪️ Meet the new Officer Commanding of the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team - Wing Commander Sasha Nash. #RedArrows | #RAF

Hello Lisbon! F16s ahead and the beautiful capital below - this was how the #RedArrows helped to mark the 650th anniversary of the British-Portuguese Alliance with a flypast earlier today. #Flyby650 #ForçaAérea #ukinportugal #Lisbon

A pair of F-35B Lightnings from 617 Squadron, which are in Iceland carrying out #NATO quick reaction alert duties, joining the #RedArrows on the approach to Keflavik earlier today. The Red Arrows are making their way to Canada for a five-week tour called Maple Hawk. #WeAreNATO

Today, we’re publishing a list of events where you can see the #RedArrows perform in 2023: 👇🎥Watch this video to get an update from the Officer Commanding on preparations for the new season and what to expect this year.