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Aero Friedrichshafen – Tuesday 16th to Sunday 21st April 2024
As a 6 day trip, we will spend 3.5 days visiting the popular Aero event held every year at Friedrichshafen. A large static as always is expected with around 200 aircraft in and the exhibition halls and this event usually attracts lots of visiting aircraft. Many of these visiting aircraft come and go each day so it is well worth spending time here each day with over 800 visitors noted during our 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2022 visits. Numbers were well down in 2023 & 2024 but the local weather was terrible!
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It is planned to fly to and met up at Zurich by the evening of Tuesday 8th April. We will then drive and overnight at Bouchs/Stans, home of Pilatus Aircraft manufacturing, for an early morning look at the hangars and flightlines – this has been very successful in the past.
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It is planned to fly to and met up at Zurich by the evening of Tuesday 8th April. We will then drive and overnight at Bouchs/Stans, home of Pilatus Aircraft manufacturing, for an early morning look at the hangars and flightlines – this has been very successful in the past.
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Continuing with Wednesday 9th April, we will drive to Friedrichshafen where we have accommodation that is just 20 minutes drive from the spotting points at Friedrichshafen airfield. Accommodation for a group of people is hard to come by in the local area whilst this event is on.
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Continuing with Wednesday 9th April, we will drive to Friedrichshafen where we have accommodation that is just 20 minutes drive from the spotting points at Friedrichshafen airfield. Accommodation for a group of people is hard to come by in the local area whilst this event is on.
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We will spend the remainder of Wednesday, all day Thursday 10th, all day Friday 11th and the morning of Saturday 12th at Friedrichshafen giving plenty of time to observe the arriving and departing Aero visitors or to take your time looking around the Aero exhibition halls. Each day we will also visit nearby Markdorf where more Aero visitors are to be found – we saw around 400 different aircraft here during each of our combined 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2022 visits but again, numbers were down in 2023 & 2024 due to poor weather.
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Also to be visited is the excellent Dornier Museum also located at Friedrichshafen. If the weather is terrible, as a group, we could also do the FFA Museum at Altenrhein.
When the group is happy to leave Friedrichshafen on Saturday 20th and for most of Sunday 21st we head to Zurich for our flights home, and so we will have time on both days to visit some German & Swiss airfields and wrecks & relics on the way back to Zurich.
We will spend the remainder of Wednesday, all day Thursday 10th, all day Friday 11th and the morning of Saturday 12th at Friedrichshafen giving plenty of time to observe the arriving and departing Aero visitors or to take your time looking around the Aero exhibition halls. Each day we will also visit nearby Markdorf where more Aero visitors are to be found – we saw around 400 different aircraft here during each of our combined 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2022 visits but again, numbers were down in 2023 & 2024 due to poor weather.
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Also to be visited is the excellent Dornier Museum also located at Friedrichshafen. If the weather is terrible, as a group, we could also do the FFA Museum at Altenrhein.
When the group is happy to leave Friedrichshafen on Saturday 20th and for most of Sunday 21st we head to Zurich for our flights home, and so we will have time on both days to visit some German & Swiss airfields and wrecks & relics on the way back to Zurich.
