Seafair 2016: Boeing Air Show

It has been a busy aviation week in Seattle! I attended the Friday (sunny) and Sunday (from grey skies and low cloud to sunny!) Seafair Boeing Air Show which included the new “Amazon One” Amazon Prime Air Boeing 767-300, a new Boeing 737 MAX, US Army and US Coast Guard helicopters, warbirds from the Flying Heritage Collection and Historic Flight Foundation, a Douglas TA-4 Skyhawk “Ginny Girl“, USAF Reserve A-10 Thunderbolt II close support aircraft, aerobatic displays and of course the headlining US Navy Blue Angels (more on the Blues in my next post). I saw some great flying over Lake Washington from a higher vantage point over the I-90 Bridge (they close it for the Blue Angels display).

The brand new Amazon Prime Air “Amazon One” Boeing 767-300 – the registration number is N1997A which cleverly includes a prime number and the year Amazon went public (Friday Air Show session)

Boeing 737 MAX (Sunday)

Douglas TA-4 Skyhawk “Ginny Girl” (Friday session)

Team Oracle presenting Pilot Sean D. Tucker and the Lucas Oils Airshows featuring Pilot Mike Wiskus and Lucas Oil Skydivers

Flying Heritage Collection Grumman F6F Hellcat, Curtiss P-40C Tomahawk, Mitsubishi A6M3 Zero and North American B-25J Mitchell bomber

Flying Heritage Collection B-25J & P-40C in close formation (Sunday)

Historic Flight Foundation Grumman F7F Tigercat and F8F Bearcat with the FHC aircraft

Historic Flight Foundation Grumman F8F Bearcat & F8F Tigercat formation pass (Sunday)

The I-90 bridge goes from traffic to nothing to people in a matter of moments just before the Blue Angels start to fly!

US Navy Blue Angels

US Army AH-64 Apache gunships on the grey Sunday morning

Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II aka “Warthogs” of the 442nd Fighter Wing, US Air Force Reserve Command out of Whiteman AFB Missouri (Sunday)