The Festival includes amazing air displays (from classic flying machines to modern day speed machines!), Sea Displays, Interactive Static Displays, Fireworks, Familiy Fun Attractions, and Music & Live Entertainment.

The festival takes place between Bournemouth and Boscombe Piers and in the Lower Gardens and the number of visitors are anticipated to be in excess of up to 200,000 per day.

Click here to visit the Bournemouth Air Festival website.

This year Bournemouth is the regions premier event for the Fly Navy 100 Naval celebrations. The resort will be receiving RFA Mounts Bay as well as the HMS Cattistock, Black Cats Helicopter Display Team (featuring Lynx helicopters), beach assaults, demonstrations from the Royal Marines Commando Display Team and music from The Band of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines will ‘beat retreat’ in the award-winning Lower Gardens every evening. Only in its second year, the Air Festival will be receiving more RAF assets than any other event in the UK this year.

’Night Air’ will include amongst other highlights The Band of Her Majesty Royal Marines, a hot air balloon show featuring 23 hot air balloons, which will be accompanied by a laser show on Friday and Saturday night; displays by the Royal Marines, street entertainers and fireworks display on Saturday night.