The Navy’s elite flying squadron has released updates to their 2018 air show schedule, as well as a full 2019 tour calendar, the Navy announced.
Modifications to the 2018 Blue Angels schedule include:
- Cancellation of March 17-18 shows in Tuscon, Arizona
- Addition of April 28-29 shows in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
- Addition of October 13-14 shows in Minden-Tahoe, Nevada.
The 2019 schedule looks like this:
- March 16: Naval Air Facility El Centro, California
- March 23-24: Salinas, California
- March 30-31: Naval Air Station (NAS) Key West, Florida
- April 6-7: Lakeland, Florida
- April 13-14: NAS Corpus Christi, Texas
- April 27-28: Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Beaufort, South Carolina
- May 4-5: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- May 18-19: Cape Girardeau, Missouri
- May 22: U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland
- May 25-26: Scranton, Pennsylvania
- June 1-2: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- June 8-9: Smyrna, Tennessee
- June 15-16: Ocean City, Maryland
- June 29-30: Davenport, Iowa
- July 6-7: Kansas City, Kansas
- July 13: Pensacola Beach, Florida
- July 20-21: Duluth, Minnesota
- July 27-28: Grand Junction, Colorado
- August 3-4: Seattle, Washington
- August 17-18: Chicago, Illinois
- August 24-25: New Windsor, New York
- September 7-8: St. Louis, Missouri
- September 21-22: NAS Lemoore, California
- September 28-29: MCAS Miramar, California
- October 5-6: Sacramento, California
- October 12-13: San Francisco, California
- October 19-20: Fort Worth, Texas
- October 26-27: Moody Air Force Base, Georgia
- November 2-3: Jacksonville Beach, Florida
- November 8-9: NAS Pensacola, Florida.
For more information about local demonstrations, be sure to check out websites for individual air shows.
Jon Simkins is the executive editor for Military Times and Defense News, and a Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War.
