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Plans Advance for 2025 National Championship Air Races

The Roswell, New Mexico, event will be the first at a new venue for the Reno Air Racing Association.

The 2023 National Championship Air Races held in Reno, Nevada. [Courtesy: Jonathan Welsh]
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Key Takeaways:

  • The National Championship Air Races (NCAR) are scheduled for September 10-14, 2025, marking their inaugural event in Roswell, New Mexico.
  • This represents a historic move from its longtime Reno, Nevada venue, with organizers actively preparing new course designs, safety protocols, and infrastructure for all seven competing airplane classes.
  • The relocation was necessitated by increasing urban development and associated safety concerns at the former Reno-Stead Airport site.
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Plans are advancing for the 2025 National Championship Air Races (NCAR), which will take place in Roswell, New Mexico in September 2025.

According to race officials, all seven classes of airplanes will take to the sky.

Meg Godlewski

Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.

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