Blue Angels Return to Seattle’s Seafair Celebration

The Emerald City’s annual festival returns in full force, loud and proud.

Friday, August 05, 2022 at 01:05 PM ET

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The Blue Angels have not performed in Seattle since 2019. They will be staging out of King County International Airport/Boeing Field (KBFI). [Courtesy: U.S. Navy / Specialist 2nd Class Christopher Gordon]

Key Takeaways:

The Blue Angels are performing at Seattle's Seafair, marking their first appearance since 2019 and flying F/A-18 Super Hornet E/Fs for the first time at the event.
The return of the Blue Angels has generated significant public excitement, drawing large crowds to practice sessions and prompting the Museum of Flight to host a "Jet Blast Bash."
Seafair is hosting 17-year-old Mac Rutherford, a Belgian-British pilot attempting to set a record as the youngest person to fly solo around the world.

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The year 2023 will go down in the aviation history books as The Year Aviation Events Returned, and one of the chapters will likely be about this weekend’s performance of the Blue Angels, the Navy demonstration team to Seafair, the August celebration held annually in Seattle since 1950.

The Blue Angels joined the festivities in 1972 flying F-4J Phantom IIs.This year, for the first time the team will be flying F/A-18 Super Hornet E/Fs.