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BEST OF // Southport Air Show 2025

LEJ.approach — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:32:48 GMT

The original reason I wanted to be at the Southport Air Show 2025 was that I finally wanted to see my favorite aircraft, the Saab 35 Draken, in action. Unfortunately they cancelled only weeks before the event, too short a time for me to cancel as well. But in hindsight I never regretted that for so much as a second! Partly because of the great aircraft I could see there and the wonderful displays they showed (which I am sure you will agree with after watching the video) but also because of the wonderful people I met! I had contact to several visitors of the show, hardly any of them aviation enthusiasts, but each and everyone of them big fun and very helpful when needed! Thank you so much! ♥️

Apart from complaining about the weather maybe 😉, there isn't much else I could say about the show, you couldn't see for yourself in the video. So, without further ado: enjoy!

The displays:

00:09 Spitfire PR Mk. XIX
00:42 L-39 Albatros
01:19 RAF Falcons
02:11 Team Raven
03:23 Aerosuperbatics Wingwalkers
03:47 RAF Tutor Display Team
04:26 Strikemaster Pair
05:18 Navy Wings Swordfish
06:01 The Starlings Aerobatic Team
07:15 Jet Provost T5
07:39 Westland Sea King
08:23 Jet Pitts
09:12 De Havilland Vampire
10:12 A-26 Invader
11:10 RAF Typhoon Display Team

music: uWu Victory by Rod Kim (from the YouTube audio library)

TURBO // Typhoon Dusk Display at Ayr Show 2024

LEJ.approach — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:13:43 GMT

Through my friends at the wonderful Ted Coningsby channel over on YouTube I heard of an air show which is held at the Scottish town of Ayr and is aptly named The International Ayr Show – Festival of Flight or simply Ayr Show. One of, if not the highlight of the event was the flying display of the 2024 RAF Typhoon display pilot Flt Lt David Turnbull (callsign: Turbo) and his Eurofighter Typhoon which he did twice, once on Friday when the sun was about to set and once on Saturday in bright daylight.

What you see in this video is the dusk display on Friday which of course gave great light but made it a bit harder to film and so let me say sorry for the aircraft sometimes not being perfectly in focus and for the occasional shakiness of the pictures, which I tried to compensate for as best I could.

The aircraft shown in the video is ZJ913, a tranche 1 Eurofighter Typhoon at the time flying with 29 squadron at RAF Coningsby which has been given a special livery for the 2024 season commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-day, the landing of the Allies on the beaches of Normandy during world war 2. And referring to the markings coming with this livery it had also gained a name: Moggy. By now (2025) Moggy has been transferred to RAF Lossiemouth to serve as a ground training aircraft.