Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence at which air shows and other events the Red Arrows appeared in each of the last five years.
Answer
The Royal Air Force Acrobatic Team (RAFAT), popularly known as the Red Arrows, participated in the following air shows and events from 2002 to 2006:
| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
| Akrotiri Families Day | CBF Investiture Ceremony—Cyprus | King Abdullah Airbase—Jordan | Amman Marka Airport—Jordan | Jordan 2006 |
| Giornata Azzurra Airshow | 50th Anniversary of Patrouille de France—Salon de Provence | RAF Akrotiri Families Day | RAF Akrotiri Families Day | Aire 06 Spanish Air Force Open Day at San Javier AFB (Spain) |
| Country Sports Show / Game Fair—Portadown | RCDS Marham Visit | 70th Anniversary FAF 04—Cognac—France | Jersey—60th Anniversary of Liberation | Isle of Man TT Festival at Douglas Bay |
| Rochefort Airshow—France | Llandudno Regional Tri Service Recruting Town Show | 205 BFJT Graduation—Linton- on-Ouse | RAF Aerobatic Team 40th Anniversary | RAF Cosford Air Show |
| Biggin Hill International Air Fair—Kent | Southend Airshow | Beaumaris Show | Enniskillen Airshow | British Grand Prix |
| Southend Airshow—Southend | RAF Lossiemouth Friends and Families Day | Blackpool Sky Show | 17(R)Sqn 90th Anniversary/17(R)Sqn New Typhoon OEU | Royal Netherlands Air Force—Leeuwarden |
| Golden Jubilee Families Day—RAF Benson | Isle of Man TT Races—Ramsey | Southend Airshow | RAF Lossiemouth and Kinloss Combined Families and Friends Day | Margate Airshow |
| Peel TT Races—Isle of Man | Isle of Man TT Races—Douglas | Portrush Airshow 2004—Northern Ireland | Abbeyshrule Airshow | Kemble Classic Jets Airshow |
| European Air Force Academies Commandants | Isle of Man TT Races Peel | Ramsey Isle of Man TT Races | The Ulster VE Day Air Show—Newtownards—N.I. | Midnight Summer Festival Air Display—Kauhava (EFKA)—Finland |
| 10th Anniversary of the Adjutant Generals Corps | Biggin Hill International Air Fair | Douglas Isle of Man TT Races | Llandudno 2005 | The Salthill Air Show (Eire) |
| 21st Signal Regiment Open Day | Nigel Mansell UK Youth Golf Classic—Woodbury | 250th Anniversary of Royal and Ancient Golf Club | Southend Airshow 2005 | Tain Gala |
| Cosford Airshow | Whitehaven Maritime Festival Cumbria | European Air Group Steering Group Meeting | RAF Valley Families Day/90th Anniversary 19(R)Sqn. 50th Anniversary of SAR/ 45th Anniversary 4FTS | Scottish Fair at Scone Palace—Scone Palace Perth |
| The Weston Park International Model Air Show | Helensburgh (Faslane) Fair | Rolls Royce Celebrations—East Midlands Airport | Faslane Fair | RAF Waddington International Air Show |
| Kemble Airday—Cirencester | Classic Jet Air Show Kemble | RAF Cosford | CVHT Charitable Fund Raising Concert—Dunsfold | The Nigel Mansell UK Youth Golf Classic |
| RAF Kinloss Family and Friends Day | Royal Netherlands 50th Anniversary—Twenthe | Dutch Open Day—Volkel Airbase | Isle of Man TT Festival | RAF Wittering 90th Anniversary Families Day |
| Nancey-Ochey Airshow—France | Evreux Airshow—France | Faslane Fair | Ramsey Sprint Day TT Festival | Goodwood Festival of Speed |
| BAE Systems Brough Families Day—Yorkshire | Fistral Beach Newquay | Kemble Air Day | FCCLA 60th VE Day Commemoration Celebrations | Blackpool Veterans/Service Awareness Week |
| RAF Waddington at Home Day | Air Power Zeltweg Austria | Golowan Festival Penzance—Cornwall | Isle of Man TT Races | RNAS Yeovilton International Air Day |
| Airborne Forces Day Yorkshire | RAF Waddington at Home Day | Goodwood Festival of Speed | Launch of Portishead Carnival | RNAS Culdrose International Air Day |
| Tain Gala | Tain Gala | RAF Waddington International Air Show | RAF Cosford Air Show | CFSA Reunion and RAF Cranwell Families Day |
| RAF Golf Championships—Trevose Golf Club Constantine Bay | Salthill Airshow—Eire | Tain Gala | Royal Netherlands Air Force Open Day—Gilze Rijen | The Royal International Air Tattoo—Flying |
| Newquay Seafront Display | RAF Boulmer 50th Anniversary Families Day | RAF Lyneham Station Families Day | Margate Airshow | World Youth Sailing Championships—Portland |
| Chichester Festivities | Central Flying School (CFS) Annual Reunion and CFS | Arbroath Seafront Spectacular | Kemble Air Day—Flying Display | RNLI Lifeboat Week—Lyme Regis |
| RIMLAF Open Day—Gilze-Rijen/Breda | Goodwood Festival Speed | Scottish Fair—Scone Palace | Air Power 2005—Zeltweg—Austria | Sanicole International Airshow (Belgium) |
| Manx Festival of Aviation-Jurby | Wirral Show | The Salthill Airshow | Whitehaven Maritime Festival—Open Air Family Event | Weston-Super-Mare Seaside Airshow/Helicopter Show |
| Plymouth Armed Forces Show | East Fortune Festival of Flight-Scotland | C.F.S. Annual Reunion—Cranwell | Salthill Airshow Galway Bay—Eire | Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival |
| Inverness Highland Games | Kidwelly Carnival | Plymouth Armed Forces Show | Trafalgar 200 Portsmouth—Son and Lumiere | RAF Wyton Families Day |
| Goodwood Festival of Speed | Royal International Air Tattoo | East Fortune Air Show | Tain Gala | Sunderland International Airshow |
| East Fortune -Museum of Flight—Edinburgh | Station Civic Day—RAF Cranwell | Kidwelly Carnival Wales | Scottish Fair | Windermere Airshow and Community Festival |
| RNAS Culdrose Air Day | British Grand Prix | British Grand Prix | RAF Waddington International Airshow | Red Arrows Bournemouth Seafront Show |
| Farnborough International | JSCSC Graduation -Swindon | Royal International Air Tattoo /Battle/Entente Cordiale/D-Day | Kidwelly Carnival | RAF Cottesmore Families Day |
| Winter Gardens Royal Parade -Weston-Super-Mare | Sunderland International Airshow | Farnborough International Airshow | British Grand Prix | Whitby Regatta |
| ACSC Graduation Ceremony—JSCSC | Llanidloes Air Day | Graduation Day JSCSC—Swindon | Air Display to Commemorate VE/VJ Day—Blackpool | 400th Anniversary of the First Charter of Dover |
| Llanidloes Air Day—Wales | Lyme Regis Lifeboat Week | Llanidloes Air Day | Central Flying School Reunion—Cranwell | Fowey Royal Regatta |
| RAF Shawbury Families Day | Weston-super-Mare Seafront Air Show | RNLI Lyme Regis Lifeboat Week—Dorset | RAF Wittering/RAF Cottesmore Families Day | RAF Lyneham Families Day |
| Sunderland International Airshow | Station Families Day—RAF Shawbury | Sunderland International Airshow | Royal International Air Tattoo | Weymouth Carnival |
| RAF Marham Families Day | Music in the Air Middle Wallop—Hants | Red Arrows Families Day | RNAS Culdrose International Air Day | Cromer Carnival |
| Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival | Windermere Community Festival | Weston-Super-Mare Seafront Airshow | JSC and SC Advanced Command and Staff Course | Dawlish Carnival Airshow |
| Kielder Forest Festival | Reach for the Sky-Blenheim Palace | RAF Marham Families Day | Llanidloes Air Day | Airbourne—The Eastbourne International Air Show |
| Music in the Air-Middle Wallop | Airbourne—The Eastbourne International Air Show | Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival | Windermere Festival—A Weekend With The RAF | Torbay Royal Regatta |
| European Ferrari Festival | Dawlish Carnival | RAF Shawbury Families Day | Arbroath Sea Front Spectacular | Aberystwyth Corporate Communications and Careers Information Event |
| Dawlish Carnival Week—Devon | Bournemouth Seafront Show | Windermere Festival | Weston-Super-Mare Seafront Show | Sidmouth Regatta |
| Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race Finish—Portsmouth | Sidmouth Regatta | Kielder Forest Festival | Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival | Port of Dartmouth 162nd Royal Regatta |
| Airbourne—The Eastbourne International Air Show | Cromer Carnival | Scandia Cowes Week | RAF Marham Families Day | Clacton Airshow |
| Bournemouth Seafront Show | Weymouth Carnival | Airbourne—The Eastbourne International Air Show | RAF Shawbury Families Day | Dunsfold Wings and Wheels |
| Barrow Festival of the Sea | Fowey Royal Regatta | Bournemouth Seafront Airshow | Sunderland Airshow | Silloth (Cumbria) Carnival |
| Sidmouth Regatta—Devon | Clacton Airshow | Cromer Carnival 2004—Norfolk | Bournemouth Seafront Show | Hoylake Lifeboat Station Open Day |
| Weymouth Carnival—Dorset | Opening Ceremony of The World Microlight Championships | Weymouth Carnival | Airbourne—The Eastbourne International Air Show | RAFAT Families Day |
| Clacton Air Show—Clacton | Yorkshire Airshow | Dawlish Carnival—Devon | ‘Fly to the Past’—Blenheim Palace | Northern Ireland Air Spectacular—Portrush |
| Fowey Royal Regatta and Carnival Week | 200th Anniversary of Hoylake Lifeboat and Open Day | Fowey Royal Regatta | RAF Lyneham Families Day | Southport Airshow and Military Show |
| Canadian International Air Show | Port of Dartmouth Royal Regatta | RAF Cottesmore Families Day | Cromer Carnival | Guernsey Battle of Britain Air Display (RAFA) |
| Nova Scotia International Air Show | Torbay Royal Regatta | The Yorkshire Airshow—Elvington | Weymouth Carnival | Jersey International Airshow |
| RAFA Jersey International Airshow | RAF Marham Families Day | 25th Anniversary of Red Arrows Flying Hawk/30th Anniversary of Hawk | Dawlish Seafront Airshow and Carnival | RAF Leuchars Battle of Britain At Home Day—Flying |
| RAFA Guernsey Airshow | Radom Air Show—Poland | Sidmouth Regatta | Sidmouth Regatta | BAE Systems (Brough) Family Day |
| RAF Leuchars Battle of Britain at Home Day | Station Families Day—RAF St. Mawgan | Torbay Royal Regatta | Yorkshire Air Show—Elvington | 6th NATO Day in Ostrava (Czech Republic) |
| Morecambe Heritage Gala | Great Ormand Street Hospital/Bishopsgate Charity Clay Pigeon Shoot—Reading | The Port of Dartmouth Royal Regatta | RAF Cottesmore Families Day | Giornata Azzurra—Pratica di Mare—Italy |
| Malta International Airshow | Southport Airshow 2003 | Clacton Airshow—Essex | The 160th Port of Dartmouth Royal Regatta | Roland Garros de Cholet—France |
| Great North Run—Newcastle upon Tyne | Duxford Airshow | The Centenary Eye Show | Clacton Airshow | Great North Run |
| Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia | Caernarfon Airshow | The International Air Show Radom Poland | Isle of Man TT Race at Peel | |
| Langkawi, Malaysia | RAF Leuchars Battle of Britain At Home Day | Hoylake Lifeboat Station Open Day | Hoylake Lifeboat Station Open Day | Goa, India |
| Bangkok, Thailand | Morecambe Heritage Gala | RAF St. Mawgan Families Day | RAF Benson Families Day | Muskat, Oman |
| Hindon (Delhi), India | Duxford Airshow | Biggin Hill International Air Fair | Abu Dhabi, UAE | |
| Muscat, Oman | 90th Anniversary of the Swiss Air Force -Payerne -Switzerland Battle of Britain Air Display Guernsey | 45th Anniversary ““Frecce Tricolori””—Italy | Bahrain, Bahrain | |
| Dubai, UAE | RAFA Jersey International Airshow | Display Over Greek Ministry of Defence Athens and | Dharhan, Saudi Arabia | |
| Abu Dhabi, UAE | Southport Airshow and Military Tattoo—Lancashire | Swiss Futures and Options Association Conference | Athens, Greece | |
| Tabuk, Saudi Arabia | RAF Leuchars Battle of Britain at Home Day | RAF Leuchars Battle of Britain at Home Day | ||
| Giza, Egypt | Morecambe Heritage Gala | Southport Airshow and Military Show | ||
| Biggin Hill Battle of Britain Weekend—Kent | Morecambe Heritage Gala and Air Display | |||
| BUPA Great North Run | Jersey International Airshow | |||
| Guernsey Battle Of Britain Air Display | ||||
| BUPA Great North Run | ||||
| RNAS Yeovilton International Air Day | ||||
| Malta International Airshow | ||||
| Note: | ||||
| The official display season for the RAF AT is between May to October every year. In 2002 and 2006 the Team additionally participated in out-of-season overseas tours. |