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When the Red Arrows return to Bournemouth Airport

The Red Arrows will return to Bournemouth Airport this weekend as they prepare for events in the south.

The world-famous aerobatic team landed at Hearn, Christchurch Airport last week as they prepared for a flight to the Isle of Wight festival on Friday night.

This weekend, the RAF flight crew will arrive at Bournemouth Airport on Saturday around 19:50 for a night stop.

Their schedule is published in military air shows.

They are scheduled to appear at the Goodwood Speed ​​Festival on Sunday for an exhibition, leaving Bournemouth Airport at 12:31 p.m. and returning over Leamington at 1:08 p.m. before landing in Bournemouth at 1:11 p.m.

The best of the British. The show season is underway and the Red Arrows were in action today between Bournemouth and the Isle of Wight. Here they fly to Bournemouth Airport before circling to land. They leave tomorrow morning on another display @rafredarrows pic.twitter.com/ccRoIXlKaN

– josephanthony.eth (@ joeair17) June 17, 2022

They will then depart from the airport at 4.18pm, fly north from Verwood and over Sturminster Newton at 4.23pm en route to the Weston Air Festival, before landing again at Bournemouth Airport at 5.04pm.

The Reds will then leave Bournemouth Airport to return home to Scampton at 7.10pm on Sunday night.

Read more: Watch when the Red Arrows landed in Bournemouth last week

Of course, they will return for The Bournemouth Air Festival, which is scheduled to take place from Thursday, September 1, to Sunday, September 4.

In a repeat of last year’s event, the Royal Air Force’s aerobatic team will take to the skies over Bournemouth and Poole for the four-day spectacle.

With crowded summer flights on schedule, performances over the south coast should be one of 32 events the Red Arrows attended this summer.