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Thank-you to all who came to the Townsville Air Show and made it such a fantastic event!

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The Defence Force Air Display Townsville was the eighth in a series of annual Air Shows around Australia at major Air Force Bases. These Shows are primarily a medium for recruiting, public information and promotion of the professional military skills and the ADF image.

This Air Show was different from past formats. The display was in front of ‘The Strand’, over water rather than on the RAAF Base. It gave us a wider frontage for spectators and it drew a large crowd that gathered from surrounding regions. The big draw card for the display was the United States Air Force demonstration Team, ‘The Thunderbirds’, in six F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft.