Queen's Birthday Flypast 2017

The Queen's Birthday Flypast over Buckingham Palace will take place on Saturday 17th June 2017. Rehearsals for this flypast will be held during the period 13th to 15th June 2017.



A large formation of military aircraft will form Her Majesty the Queen's Birthday Flypast on 17 June 2017. The Flypast formation will form up at Southwold, Suffolk and route via Ipswich, abeam Colchester, Chelmsford and enter the London City Control Zone south of Stapleford aerodrome; the formation will overfly Buckingham Palace and route via RAF Northolt and RAF Halton/Naphill and disperse in the RAF Brize Norton area. The flypast will be over Buckingham Palace at 1pm.



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Chinook HC4 (Vortex 1) ZD574

Puma HC2

King Air B200 x3 (Memorial/Camel) ZK452, ZH456 (represents the BBMF)

Beech Shadow R1 (Snake49) ZZ419

C-17 Globemaster III (Blackcat) ZZ178

BAe 146 C3 (Claret) ZE707

A400M Atlas (Grizzly 1) ZM406

C-130J Hercules (Grizzly 2) - ZH879

C-130J Hercules (VN11) - ZH868

Sentinel R1 (Snapshot) ZJ690

Typhoon FGR4 x4 (TripleX 1-4) ZK352, ZJ930, ZK307

Voyager (Tartan) ZZ343

Tornado GR4 x2 (Vermin/Rebel) ZA614

Hawk T1 (Aggressor) - (represents the Red Arrows)



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The rehearsals will start in the vicinity of Southwold, Suffolk then route via the overhead of RAF Marham, Norfolk and conclude, for dispersal, at RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire.29 RAF Aircraft, of 15 different types, from 8 RAF bases across the country will be flying over Buckingham Palace at 13:00 this afternoon. They represent the variety of Aircraft needed to secure our skies and protect our people at home and abroad. Here is the line-up, as you would see it from The Mall in Central London.(ZD574) RAF Odiham (XW209) RAF Benson (P7350)(LF363, PZ865) - RAF Coningsby (ZZ419) RAF Waddington (ZK459, ZK452) RAF Cranwell (ZZ174) RAF Brize Norton (ZE701) RAF Northolt (ZM412) RAF Brize Norton (ZH874) RAF Brize Norton (ZJ690) RAF Waddington (ZK311, ZK325, ZK343, ZK363) RAF Coningsby (ZZ331) RAF Brize Norton (ZA459, ZD848) RAF Marham (XX177, XX204, XX227, XX242, XX244, XX245, XX311, XX319, XX323) RAF Scampton