Eyes up for King's Coronation Flypast 2023

If you’re thinking of going flying this Saturday, 6 May 2023, anywhere south of Sheffield, plan carefully!

There will be what’s called ‘a large formation of military aircraft’ taking part in a flypast for the King’s Coronation.

The King’s Coronation Flypast will overfly Buckingham Palace at about 2.30pm on Saturday after the Coronation ceremony and subsequent procession from Westminster Cathedral to the palace.

Naturally, there will be airspace restrictions in place and these are detailed in AIC Mauve 024/2023 available from the NATS AIS site. Download it here.

The chart above shows the Red Arrows routing. Image: Military Airshows/Google

There’s a huge swathe of Restricted Airspace (Temporary) across part of the North Sea, East Anglia, Essex and London. After overflying the Palace, the formation will go south and west to disperse over Surrey, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire.

The aircraft taking part are likely to include:

• The Red Arrows
• Typhoons
• 16 helicopters from RAF Benson
• Spitfires from the BBMF
• The brand new Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft
• RAF and Royal Navy F-35s
• Transport aircraft
• and the RAF’s new Envoy IV CC1 aircraft to take part.

Read about the flypast rehearsals and some of the aircraft taking part here

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