SouthportAir wrote:Hi all, glad that many of you enjoyed the show. With Friday night being a first for us we were extremely pleased with how it went.
In order for us to improve in the future please do let us have further feedback and what you want to see in 2018! With it being in July the evening show will be more challenging but it will go ahead.
Planning for next year has already begun and requests for displays have been and are being made.
The evening show will be a late start for sure, but will probably be warmer than this year! This year's sunset was quite something, I wish you many more of those, it was a stunning backdrop for an airshow.
In terms of requests, I'll agree with some of those already stated above. The date coinciding with Yeovilton may bring opportunities to share international military participation, at the very least the Belgian F-16 isn't averse to sharing.
And adding to the 'bit of everything' spirit of Southport; The Matadors would be great, the return of Patrouille Reva or even the Jordanian Falcons would be good - they'll be in the country, also agree on Rich Goodwin and I'd love to see the Mike Williams/Chris Burkett little and large Extra syncro display.
Being in early July, you should be in-season for the likes of Chinook and Apache, and I'd be disappointed if the Navy couldn't send something up from Somerset.
Have to agree the Great War team would show well at Southport, and I'd love to see the Tiger Moth diamond 9 team operate off the beach. Which means the return of the beach runways!
Some new-to-Southport warbirds would be ace. In an ideal world Fighter Collection's naval warbirds would be lovely. But next year being an RAF year the Blenheim would be nice.
Good luck
EDIT: and for the night show.. a sunset Red Arrows display, and later, AeroSparx!