What's On?
It's not just an air show! The Abingdon Air & Country Show will have, as well as a large scale
fly-in of both modern & vintage aeroplanes and the associated air display a varied ground show.
We have always aimed to make our show a great family day out with lots to do and see for everybody - and it's all for charity, as we support the local Air Ambulance. The Thames Valley & Chiltern Air Ambulance, like all Air Ambulance services in the UK, is funded entirely by donations from the public and private companies. See the home page for the donation we gave in 2009.
Ground Attractions will include the return of the Dr Who Daleks, Sheepdog demonstrations, RBS Williams F1 showcar, various World War Two re-enactment displays, Mobile Farm, Crafts Fayre, Tank Rides, Kids Amusements including Bouncy Castle, Climbing Wall & Crazy Cottage, Dalton Barracks Army PR Display (4 Regiment) as well as over 80 Trade Stalls & Displays, Abingdon MG Car Works meet, the return of Fiona Harrison singing 1940s music, local band Silver and more!
Flying Display Aircraft
The afternoon Flying Program will be approximately 4 hours long including military & civilian types.
As of 1st May the final display listing is in some flux as we are trying to expand it to include some new items to make up for the lack
of aircraft on the ground but it will now include:
RNLAF F-16 Fighting Falcon, RAF Tucano, RAF Tutor,
T-28 Fennec, DC-3 'Drag em oot', Twister Duo, RAF Hawk, BBMF
Spitfire, Hurricane and Lancaster, Harvard, Vampire, Swift Glider Aerobatic
Display Team, Harvard (tbc), Jet Provost, Hunter, VC-10 (flypast), C-17 (flypast) and hopefully Air Ambulance EC-135 (flypast).
Static Display Aircraft
As well as just about all the Flying Display aircraft being available on the ground for static viewing, the Fly In participants will be available for
viewing.
Static participants will be limited to helicopters including RAF Merlin, RAF Puma, RAF Agusta 109 and US Army UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter.
Vintage & Classic Vehicles
With vintage and classic vehicles of all types attending we hope to have a
bumper selection ranging from miniature steam engines, classic cars,
police cars, buses, ex-military vehicles, a steam roller and much more.
The Abingdon MG Car Works Rally will once again be with us, with road runs
from locations around the region to meet at the show, with hopefully over
200 assorted MGs to view.
Previous shows
For a better idea of just what happens at the Abingdon Air & Country Show, have a look at
these reports for previous shows: 2010 (Global Aviation Resource),
2009 (Checksix),
2009 (Flightline UK),
2009 (UK Airshow Review),
2008 (Flightline UK),
2008 (UK Airshow Review),
2007 (Air-Scene UK),
2007 (Flightline UK<)/a>,
2006 (Air-Scene UK),
2006 (Flightline UK),
2006 (UK Airshow Review),
2005 (Air-Scene UK),
2005 (Flightline UK),
2004 (Air-Scene UK),
2004 (Flightline UK),
2003 (Air-Scene UK),
2002 (Air-Scene UK),
2002 (Air-Scene UK).
We hope you come and join us, have a great day out and make some money for the Air Ambulance! See you soon!