{"id":827,"date":"2014-05-31T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/?p=827"},"modified":"2026-08-25T21:11:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T20:11:04","slug":"cielo-aperto-locarno-airport-75th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/?p=827&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Cielo Aperto – Locarno airport 75th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week-end, Locarno airport celebrated its 75th Anniversary with airshow Cielo Aperto.<\/p>\n

Opening the show, the Classic Formation ,with a DC-3 and 2 Beech 18s.
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WeFly! Team, ultralight display team flown by disabled pilots.
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Swift S-1 aerobatic glider
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DynAero MCR-01 tow plane
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Stemme S-10 motorglider
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Swiss Bucker Team, with Bucker Bu-131 Jungmann (inline engines) and Bu-133 Jungmeister (radial engines) biplanes
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EC-635 SAR demo
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Fast-rope insertion by a Super Puma
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Rapid extraction
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Yves “JetMan” Rossy
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Fliegermuseum Altenrhein’s de Havilland Vampire and Hawker Hunter
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PC-6 Turbo Porter taking off to drop skydivers
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Breitling Jet Team
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Junkers Ju-52
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Messerschmitt Bf.108 Taifun
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Firefighting demo
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F+W C-3605 Schlepp target towing plane. Born as a piston-engined plane, it was re-engined with a turboprop. Due to the higher power-to-weight ratio of turboprops, the nose had to be lenghtened to avoid having the center of gravity too close to the tail, making the plane unstable.
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PC-9 target towing demo
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Plant transportation demo with a Eliticino Tarmac Ecureuil
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Pilatus formation
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Super Puma display
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World War 2 fighters time!
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North American P-51 Mustang
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Hispano Buchon, Spanish license-built version of the Messerschmitt Bf.109 re-engined with a Rolls-royce Merlin engine
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Rare twin-seater Spitfire
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REGA A109
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Patrouille Suisse
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Just one shot from the static display: Grandjean replica
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This week-end, Locarno airport celebrated its 75th Anniversary with airshow Cielo Aperto. Opening the show, the Classic Formation ,with a DC-3 and 2 Beech 18s. WeFly! Team, ultralight display team flown by disabled pilots. Swift S-1 aerobatic glider DynAero MCR-01 tow plane Stemme S-10 motorglider Swiss Bucker Team, with Bucker Bu-131 Jungmann (inline engines) and … Continua la lettura di Cielo Aperto – Locarno airport 75th Anniversary<\/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":[24,43,6,23,988,21,20,28],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airshows","category-spotting-report","tag-aircraft","tag-airplane","tag-airshow","tag-historical","tag-locarno","tag-military","tag-spotting","tag-warbird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","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=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}