The Royal Australian Air Force will conduct an airshow at RAAF Base Richmond over the weekend of 27 and 28 September 2025. The event will commemorate 100 years of RAAF Base Richmond; our second oldest Air Force base and the oldest in NSW.
The airshow will be an exhilarating aviation experience showcasing Australian Defence Force aircraft, other military capabilities and our people, in the air and on the ground.
Airborne highlights will include the F-35A Lightning II, F/A-18F Super Hornet, Roulettes Aerobatic Team, C-17A Globemaster, C-130J Hercules, C-27 Spartan, KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport,
E-7A Wedgetail, P-8 Poseidon, and 100SQN Heritage aircraft.
The aircraft and their crews will be on ground display as well as exhibits of Air Force Security Forces, Military Working Dogs, Aeromedical Evacuation, Explosive Detection, Firefighters, Drones, Simulators and Virtual Reality, Air Force Cadets, Bands and much more!
Tickets
The RAAF Richmond Airshow will be a ticketed event to ensure sufficient transport, parking and amenities are available for you to enjoy your day.
Tickets will go on sale by mid August 2025. Details will be provided here by 1 July.
Transport
Transport options will include free train travel to Clarendon Station or Parking at the Hawkesbury Showgrounds. More information will be available here by 1 July.
Flying and Exhibits Schedule
Flying displays, Military Working Dogs and other exhibits will be conducted throughout the day. Check back here in August for the event program.
In the meantime, you can find out more about our ADF aircraft via these links:
To whom it concerns,
In past Richmond airshows, yes many years ago now, upwards of 200,000 thousand tickets were sold to the two day event. While I understand safety and logistics catering for that many people would be a nightmare I do question why the show can’t be broadcast on ABC television or one of the other networks.
Now one response to this question would be security, my answer to that would be, international spies would have been the first to get tickets to the show, so that argument is void.
Another Argument would be lack of Television ratings – again when the show used to sell 200,000 tickets and now only sells 40,000, well there is 160,000 people who have missed out just in the local area and the wider community of NSW and Australia who would have loved to attend but cannot for what ever reason. I would suggest far more people than that would be watching- to me it would be like Mount Panarama and the Super cars each year where I sit there watching cars go around the track all day.
Finally broadcasting on Television would allow a script to be followed by commentators which ensures only information that is already in the public arena is broadcast or that has no bearing on government secrets. Therefore no concerns with security.
The point is when events such as cricket or finals football is sold out these events are broadcast on television, and security of not showing these aircraft on television is well quite simply a joke as all international players in espionage would already know everything about Australian aircraft that they want to know. As we don’t produce any of our own military aircraft that’s of no concern and most of the stuff spies want is already in the public arena.
Would be great if someone could broadcast this airshow.