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 a writer and editor for Military Times, and a USMC veteran.