Traditionally, the show is opened by an heart-shaped hot air balloon advertising Styria, "the green heart of Austria", and another one advertising the Austrian Armed Forces:
Followed by Red Bull skydivers:
Diamond Aircraft Industries formation, with DA-50, DA-42 and DA-62:
Czech Air Force PZL W-3 Sokol, which performed quite some tight maneuvers:
Skytexters takeoff:
Czech Flying Bulls flying 4 XtremeAir XA-42 Sbach 342:
In formation with a Czech Air Force Gripen with special livery:
Which then performed a solo display:
Horsemen Flight Team, the only display team flying P-51 Mustang:
Real-size replica of a Messerschmitt Me 262 WW2 jet fighter:
Luftwaffe Eurofighter Typhoon:
Italian Air Force Reparto Sperimentale Volo C-27J Spartan, wearing a special tail to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the wing (as also did the T-346 and the Typhoon):
Swiss Air Force F-18 Hornet:
Dario Costa flying a Zivko Edge 540 (purpose built for Red Bull Air Race, with which in 2021 he flew through 2 highway tunnels in Turkey) and Luke Czepiela flying a Cub Crafters Carbon Cub (STOL plane based on the Piper Cub, with which in 2023 he landed and took off from the Burj Al Arab helipad):
Spanish display team Patrulla Aguila:
Pilatus PC-7 and Diamond DA-40 trainers formation:
Solo display by the PC-7 wearing the 30th Anniversary special livery (...which was painted 11 years ago!)
Reparto Sperimentale Volo T-346:
Simulated intercept of a C-130 by two Typhoons:
The Typhoons, both wearing special tails, then simulated a dogfight:
S-70 Black Hawk:
Blanix Team L-13 Blanik gliders:
USAF Vermont Air National Guard F-35A Lightning II:
The friday morning moist weather created interesting condensation effects:
Heritage flight with Horsemen Flight Team:
Slovenian Air Force Pilatus PC-9:
Red Bull helicopters: AH-1 Cobra...
...and two Bo 105:
Flypast and touch-and-go by an Austrian Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner:
Hellenic Air Force F-16:
Croatian Air Force display team Krila Oluje/Wings of Storm:
Hungarian Air Force Gripen:
German Army Eurocopter Tiger:
Finnish Air Force F-18 Hornet:
Luftwaffe Airbus A400M:
Patrouille Suisse:
Reparto Sperimentale Volo Typhoon:
German Army NH-90:
Flying Bulls, flying B-25 Mitchell, P-38 Lightning, P-51 Mustang, F4U Corsair, T-28 Trojan and two Alpha Jet:
And finally the contested finale of the airshow: the Argonaut display.
The only upside is that it showed almost all Austrian Air Force assets.
Tiger-livery Typhoon:
Bell 206 (the only one wearing this camo livery):
Agusta-Bell AB.212:
Recently delivered AgustaWestland AW169M LUH:
Pilatus PC-6:
In firefighting configuration...
...and a rarely seen target-towing configuration (only after the airshow I discovered that the target symbolized the Golden Fleece):
I'm sorry, but I have to post these pictures. You have to endure this stuff as I had to. When I told my friends that "I was at the airshow when these guys arrived with a Fiat 500 like the one driven by Lupin the 3rd towing a sailboat and they spoke to Aphrodite then a digger carrying a Greek helmet passed and then a guy with a sword fought against a digger with a flaming bucket" they thought I was doing drugs.
