{"id":1457,"date":"2025-10-17T20:38:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2025-10-17T20:40:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:40:33","slug":"2nd-aeronautica-militare-balloon-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/?p=1457&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"2nd Aeronautica Militare Balloon Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last airshow of the year, before “winter lethargy”!<\/p>\n

Piacenza – San Damiano air base hosted the 2nd edition of Aeronautica Militare Balloon Cup, a hot-air and gas balloon race which features also a small airshow.<\/p>\n

The show was opened by Frecce Tricolori, which celebrated their 65th Anniversary<\/a> in Rivolto just few weeks earlier.
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SAR demo by a 15th Stormo HH-139B
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Caproni Ca.3 and SPAD XIII replicas built by Fondazione Jonathan Collection
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Legend Formation, with some past and current Italian Air Force trainers
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Forming the propeller diamond, SIAI-Marchetti U-208A and T-260B, T-6 Texan and Fiat G.46
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Forming the jet diamond, Aermacchi T-346A, FT-339C, MB.326E and T-345A, the last of these taking part in the Formation for the first time
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The T-346A and T-345A also performed short solo displays
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Closing the event, solo display by the only airworthy G.91 in the world
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There was also a small but interesting static display
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Dassault VC-50A Falcon
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T-6 Texan
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Last airshow of the year, before “winter lethargy”! Piacenza – San Damiano air base hosted the 2nd edition of Aeronautica Militare Balloon Cup, a hot-air and gas balloon race which features also a small airshow. The show was opened by Frecce Tricolori, which celebrated their 65th Anniversary in Rivolto just few weeks earlier. SAR demo … Continua la lettura di 2nd Aeronautica Militare Balloon Cup<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[43,6,1313,1315,1317,20],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airshows","category-spotting-report","tag-airplane","tag-airshow","tag-balloon-en","tag-mongolfiere-en","tag-san-damiano-en","tag-spotting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1458,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions\/1458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}