Flying colors in RIAT

In 2025 I visited the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) in Royal Airforce base in Fairford, England. For someone from Finland the event was massive! Large part of an airbase full of people and things to see. For a photographer it was like an all you can eat -buffet with continuous flying action and interesting on the ground scenes to photograph.

Enjoy my photos from the event exclusively on this page. I attended as a visitor, so these photos are not published anywhere else.

The Royal Airforce’s aerobatics display team Red Arrows performed at RIAT 2025.

Blue, red and white smoke effects from Red Arrows jets made the sky look like a watercolour painting.

RAF’s Red Arrows formation

Crowd watches the Red Arrows performance.

Blue, red and white smoke effects from Red Arrows jets made the sky look like a watercolour painting.

Crowd taking cover from the rain inside a US Air Force C5 Galaxy transport plane.

British crew posing in front of an Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet.

Slovenian Air Force crew introducing their aircraft.

Visitors pose in front of USAF Boeing RC-135V Rivet Joint plane.

Lunchbreak onboard a Dutch Air Force Airbus A330 MRTT plane.

Crowd in front of an American DC-3 plane.

A French Bréguet 1150 Atlantic maritime patrol plane flying in the background of a Gulfstream business jet.

A rare sight: famous Cold War era spy-plane, the U2, flew in RIAT 2025.

Frecce Tricolori, the Italian air force display team, preparing for take-off.