Blue Angels at the Reno National Championship Air Races and Air Show.
Photo © Stan White
You will enjoy acres of historic and military aircraft displayed on the tarmac at Reno Stead Field Airport. Active duty military planes are accompanied by their crews and many are open for tours. Numerous vendors are available around the show area to provide visitors with food, drink, and a variety of aviation related products. The weather forecast is looking near-perfect, but it's always a good idea to check before heading out.
You can purchase tickets in advance, but they are always available at the gate. I recommend you go the few extra bucks for a pit pass, which allows you to get up close to the racing airplanes and watch the ground crews work on these fast flyers. The unlimited class planes are WWII fighters, souped up to hit 500 mph.
The Reno Air Races are flown at Reno Stead Field Airport, about 8 miles north of downtown Reno. Before you head out, learn the details by reading my article on the Reno National Championship Air Races and Air Show. You can also get a glimpse of what you will see from by Reno Air Races and Air Show pictures.
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Comments
I love the Air Races but will it go the way of Hot August nights. RARA is getting greedier and greedier every year and attendance is dropping due to the ridiculous ‘add-ons’ for example – buy an expensive box for you and your friends and NOW pay a cooler charge if you want to take one in, even for water! As a pilot, hangar tenant and airplane owner I can’t even get to my hangar as early as the Sunday before without being hassled for a pass and authorization. I guess next they will be asking for paid entry anytime during the month of September. Re-organize RARA, improve efficency by decent management and stop ripping us off so it will not relocate somewhere else. Also, by the way, this years schedule, yawn, too few activities with too many waits.
I think TC has some valid points. I went to the Air Races today (Friday, the 17th) and decided to park way down the street and walk because I’m tired of being gouged for parking in the dirt. $10 is too much and, like TC, I think stuff like that probably prices some people out and just makes others (like me) mad. I know the Air Races is expensive to put on, but policies and prices that discourage people from coming don’t help. RARA needs to take a look at what’s going on with Hot August Nights and learn something. If there is another suitable place anywhere in the country for this type of event, I’d be surprised. Seems to me it would be a good idea to do whatever is necessary to keep it viable right here or it won’t move, it will end. I went mainly to see the Snowbirds and they put on a beautiful show.