Watch the RAF and Red Arrows take part in spectacular Trooping the Colour flypast tomorrow
Saturday marks King Charles's first Trooping the Colour as monarch and to mark the special occasion a grand RAF flypast will take place - here Express.co.uk pinpoints the exact timings and locations to catch a glimpse of the airshow.
What is the route of the RAF Flypast?
The flypast, due to be the finale of the day's events, will last around 15 minutes and officially start at 1pm in London. However, the aircraft will gather outside the city before getting into formation.
If you're lucky you might be able to glimpse the flypast as they fly in a holding pattern over the Norfolk coast and as they fly in over Thetford, Norfolk, and Suffolk.
As they get closer to the capital they will fly over Ipswich, Colchester, and Chelmsford before flying over the capital in formation. After conducting the flypast, they will split with some flying over Croydon and Surrey whilst others head for Reading, Berkshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, and Oxford.
After zooming over Buckingham Palace, where senior members of the Royal Family will gather on the balcony to watch the tremendous display, some planes will fly over Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Marlborough, Tidworth, and Wiltshire.
The exact timings of the flypast and when they pass each location has not yet been released by the RAF.
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What locations are you most likely to see the RAF flypast?
- Area A: North Sea and Norfolk Coast (expected between 11.45am and 1.30pm)
- Area B: Thetford, Norfolk and Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk (expected between 12.15pm and 1.30pm)
- Area C: Ipswich, Suffolk (expected between 12.15pm and 1.30pm)
- Area D: Colchester and Chelmsford, Essex (expected between 12.15pm and 1.15pm)
- Area E: London (expected between 12.40pm and 1.15pm)
- Area F: Croydon, London and Surrey (expected between 12.50pm and 1.30pm)
- Area G: Reading, Berkshire, Swindon, Wiltshire and Oxford, Oxfordshire (expected between 12.50pm and 1.30pm)
- Area H: Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire (expected between 12.50pm and 1.30pm)
- Area I: Marlborough, Tidworth, Wiltshire (expected between 12.50pm and 1.30pm)
Which planes will feature in the flypast?
Many of the aircraft that will feature in the Trooping the Colour flypast were meant to have featured in the Coronation flypast which was curtailed due to poor weather conditions.
Beginning the procession will be several formations of helicopters including Junos, Wildcasts, Apaches, and Merlin Mk4s, alongside twin-rotor Chinooks and a Puma.
Following up behind them will be aircraft from World War 2 and the famous Battle of Britain. Representing this iconic period in the history of the RAF will be a Lancaster bomber, a Spitfire, and a Hurricane.
From this point on, the machinery gets a lot more modern, a lot faster and a lot bigger.
Following behind the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight will be a Phenom and a group of Texan aircraft.
These will be succeeded by a group of C-130 Hercules which, like 47 Squadron, are soon to be retired from service.
After these iconic aircraft will be a C-17 and the Hercules’ successor, the A400M flying alongside a Voyager. And from here, the RAF will show off its versatile fighter aircraft alongside its most iconic crew.
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Typhoon fighter aircraft will accompany a Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft which in turn will be ahead of the RAF’s latest squadron of Lockheed F-35Bs.
The final two waves will consist of another group of Typhoons before the iconic Red Arrows display team.
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The King has made six major changes to the ceremony this year as part of his birthday celebrations.
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