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Performing Aircraft

The Snowbirds Demo Team
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The Snowbirds Demonstration Team (431 Squadron) is a Canadian icon comprised of serving members of the Canadian Forces. Their pilots and technicians work as a team to bring thrilling performances to the North American public.

Serving as Canadian ambassadors, the Snowbirds demonstrate the high level of professionalism, teamwork, excellence, discipline and dedication inherent in the women and men of the Air Force and the Canadian Forces.

Snowbirds Official Website

CF-188 Hornet Demo
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The Canadian Air Force's CF-18 Demonstration Team personifies the excellence required to keep the Canadian Air Force among the best aviation organizations on the planet.

The expertise and dedication required by the team, from the pilot to the maintenance crews, reflects the professionalism of all of Canada's airmen and airwomen.

CF-18 Hornet Official Website

SkyHawks
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The SkyHawks mission is to promote the Canadian Forces and the Canadian Army at major events and in media appearances in order to inform the public of its various trades and work environments by exemplifying a high standard of training, professionalism, teamwork and fitness.

Skyhawks Official Website

KC-135 Stratotanker
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The KC-135 Stratotanker provides the core aerial refueling capability for the United States Air Force and has excelled in this role for more than 50 years. This unique asset enhances the Air Force's capability to accomplish its primary missions of Global Reach and Global Power. It also provides aerial refueling support to Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps and allied nation aircraft. The KC-135 is also capable of transporting litter and ambulatory patients using patient support pallets during aeromedical evacuations.

KC-135 Stratotanker Official Website

C-130 Hercules
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The C-130 Hercules primarily performs the tactical portion of the airlift mission. The aircraft is capable of operating from rough, dirt strips and is the prime transport for air dropping troops and equipment into hostile areas. The C-130 operates throughout the U.S. Air Force, serving with Air Mobility Command, Air Force Special Operations Command, Air Combat Command, U.S. Air Forces in Europe, Pacific Air Forces, Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserve Command, fulfilling a wide range of operational missions in both peace and war situations.

C-130 Hercules Official Website

HH-65 Dolphin
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The twin-engine Dolphins operate up to 150 miles off shore and will fly comfortably at 120 knots for three hours. The HH-65A is not able to perform water landings. They assist in the missions of search and rescue, enforcement of laws and treaties, including drug interdiction, polar ice breaking, marine environmental protection including pollution control, and military readiness. Helicopters stationed aboard icebreakers are the ship's eyes to find thinner and more navigable ice channels. They also airlift supplies to ships and to villages isolated by winter.

HH-65 Dolphin Official Website

4 x F16's USANG
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Static Aircraft

T-39 Sabreliner
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The T-39 Sabreliner is a multipurpose low-wing, twin-jet aircraft. The 15 T-39Ns, derivatives of the commercial Sabre model 265-40‚ are used for training undergraduate military flight officer students in radar navigation and airborne radar-intercept procedures. These aircraft replaced Cessna T-47As during the early 1990s. The eight T-39Gs are derivatives of the commercial Sabre model 265-60, and are used for student non-radar training. These aircraft began replacing Air Force T-1A Jayhawks in Navy training squadrons in mid-1999.

T-39 Sabreliner Official Website

C-130 Hercules
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The C-130 Hercules primarily performs the tactical portion of the airlift mission. The aircraft is capable of operating from rough, dirt strips and is the prime transport for air dropping troops and equipment into hostile areas. The C-130 operates throughout the U.S. Air Force, serving with Air Mobility Command, Air Force Special Operations Command, Air Combat Command, U.S. Air Forces in Europe, Pacific Air Forces, Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserve Command, fulfilling a wide range of operational missions in both peace and war situations.

C-130 Hercules Official Website

A-10 Thunderbolt II
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The A-10 Thunderbolt II has excellent maneuverability at low air speeds and altitude, and is an highly accurate weapons-delivery platform. The aircraft can loiter near battle areas for extended periods of time and operate under 1,000-foot ceilings (303.3 meters) with 1.5-mile (2.4 kilometers) visibility. The wide combat radius and short takeoff and landing capability permit operations in and out of locations near front lines. Using night vision goggles, A-10 pilots can conduct their missions during darkness.

A-10 Thunderbolt II Official Website

T-45 Goshawk
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The T-45A aircraft, the Navy version of the British Aerospace Hawk aircraft, is used for intermediate and advanced portions of the Navy/Marine Corps pilot training program for jet carrier aviation and tactical strike missions. The T-45A has replaced the T-2 Buckeye trainer and the TA-4 trainer with an integrated training system that includes the T-45A Goshawk aircraft, operations and instrument fighter simulators, academics, and training integration system.

T-45 Goshawk Official Website

T-34C Turbomentor
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The T-34C is used to provide primary flight training for student pilots. The T-34C was procured as a commercial-derivative aircraft certified under an FAA Type Certificate. The T-34C was derived from the civilian Beechcraft Bonanza. Throughout its life, the aircraft has been operated and commercially supported by the Navy using FAA processes, procedures and certifications.

T-34C Turbomentor Official Website

T-6A Harvard II
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The T-6A Texan II is a single-engine, two-seat primary trainer designed to train Joint Primary Pilot Training, or JPPT, students in basic flying skills common to U.S. Air Force and Navy pilots. The T-6A is used to train JPPT students, providing the basic skills necessary to progress to one of four training tracks: the Air Force bomber-fighter or the Navy strike track, the Air Force airlift-tanker or Navy maritime track, the Air Force or Navy turboprop track and the Air Force-Navy helicopter track.

T-6A Harvard II Official Website

2 x A-10 USANG
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C-130J USAF
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2 x T34 USN
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2 x TH-57 USN
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Warbirds

Bucker Bu 131 Jungmann
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The German Bucker Bu 131 "Jungmann" (Young man) was a 1930s basic training aircraft which was used by the Luftwaffe during World War II. The Bu 131 B was selected as the primary basic trainer for the German Luftwaffe,[1] and it served with "virtually all" the Luftwaffe's primary flying schools during the war, as well as with night harassment units.

Dornier 27
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The Dornier Do 27 was a German single-engine STOL utility aircraft. The Do 27 was developed from the Do 25, an aircraft originally designed to a Spanish military requirement for a light utility aircraft. The Do 27 was notable for being the first mass-produced aircraft in Germany after World War II. It was appreciated for its relatively wide, comfortable cabin and excellent short-field performance.

De Havilland Chipmunk x 2
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Designed to succeed the De Havilland Tiger Moth biplane trainer, the Chipmunk flew for the first time at Downsview, Toronto on 22 May 1946. It was the first indigenous design of de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd. The prototype was powered by a 108-kW (145hp) de Havilland Gipsy Major 1C. From the 1950s onward, the Chipmunk became a popular civilian aircraft, being used for training, aerobatics and crop spraying. Most civilian aircraft were ex-military.

Stearman
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The Stearman (Boeing) Model 75 is a biplane used as a military trainer aircraft, of which at least 9,783 were built in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. Widely known as the Stearman, Boeing Stearman or Kaydet, it served as a primary trainer for the USAAF, as a basic trainer for the USN (as the NS & N2S), and with the RCAF as the Kaydet throughout World War II. After the conflict was over, thousands of surplus aircraft were sold on the civil market. In the immediate post-war years they became popular as crop dusters and as sports planes.

T-6 Harvard
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The North American "Harvard" is another famous and highly successful design. Also known by a wide variety of other names (Harvard, Texan, Yellow Peril) or designations (AT-6, T-6, etc), the aircraft was heavily used by the RAF/RCAF during the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in World War II and subsequently for NATO pilot training in the post-war era. Approximately 11,000 Canadians and 8,000 Allied airmen received pilot training on Harvards in Canada during World War II.

DC-3 CWH
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B-25 CWH
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Aircraft

SATURDAY - SUNDAY FLYING DISPLAY 1 pm - 4:30 pm

Great Lakes International Air Show has a proud history of providing an exciting action filled flying display combined with an interesting variety of static aircraft. Follow this page for regular updates on attending aircraft as they become available. Please note that while aircraft listed are confirmed, their attendance and performance, is subject to weather, mechanical, operational requirements, flight crew status and cannot be guaranteed.







Attractions

We're Prepared to take you to new Heights

Great Lakes International Air Show is more than just airplanes! We offer an exciting and varied ground display including current and vintage military vehicles, hardware and displays. Watch this section for updates as attendance is confirmed.