OCEAN CITY – All eyes will turn to the sky for Ocean City’s Air Show Weekend Sept. 13-14. All events are free.
The celebration starts with the Ocean City Airport Festival 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday featuring a ground display of unusual airplanes ranging from World War II planes to warbirds and classics.
Team Fastrax, “America’s Skydiving Team,” will perform at the Airport Festival at noon, depending on wind and weather conditions. Ocean City Council Vice President Pete Madden is scheduled to make a tandem jump with one of the team professionals.
A half-mile “Runway Run/Walk” will return and is open to all ages. The run will go off immediately after the skydiving jump. Children’s activities will include airplane and coloring contests between 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. All-day activities include “Bubble Mania,” face-painting, helicopter rides available for purchase, city vehicle displays.
The festival takes place at the Municipal Airport at 26th Street and Bay Avenue. Additional parking for the festival will be available at Shelter Road (off Tennessee Avenue) with free shuttle service provided.
The Parachute Pyrotechnic Show will go off over Ocean City at 8 p.m. . The show consists of several highly trained and specially licensed Team Fastrax parachuters exiting an aircraft 6,000 feet above Ocean City’s beach and boardwalk.
The Boardwalk Aerobatic Air Show will bring some of the best stunt pilots and aerobatic champions in the nation to put on a show over the beach and boardwalk starting at 1 p.m. Sunday.
This year’s show will welcome Team Fastrax, Kevin Russo, the Jersey Jerks, Rick Volker, the NextGen Eagles, Robert “Rooster” Schmidle, the Coast Guard and a flyover of a KC-46A Pegasus from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.
Thousands of spectators typically soak up some of the final days of the calendar summer as they watch the spectacle from the beach and boardwalk. The show is best viewed from the area between Fifth Street and 14th Street. There is no rain date for any of the shows, and air performances may be canceled if weather conditions do not allow for safe flying.