Air show organizers announced Thursday the U.S. Navy Blue Angels will fly above the 2022 Dayton Air Show and the U.S. Army Golden Knights are scheduled to appear next summer.
The 47th air show will continue in 2021 after it was canceled last summer due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Dayton Daily News reported.
The Blue Angels appearance in 2022 will be the first time they have appeared in Dayton since 2018 and the first year they fly the Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft.
The Super Hornet is louder, more powerful and larger than the older C and D model Hornets that the Angels have flown since the mid-1980s.
The Golden Knights, the army’s official parachute team, are drawn from U.S. Army paratroopers based at Fort Bragg,
“The world-renowned Blue Angels and elite Golden Knights will be coming to Dayton, which is great news for our community," Scott Buchanan, chairman of the U.S. Air & Trade Show board of trustees, said in a release.
The 2021 show is scheduled for July 10-11 at Dayton International Airport.
