This forum is for discussions about Airshows, aviation events and allows WIX member to coordinate a get together and meet ups at these events.
Wed Jun 24, 2015 7:53 pm
Does anybody know anything solid about the "New York Air Show," originally scheduled for Coney Island but in mid-June moved to SWF, 60 miles north of New York City, with dates of 29-30 August 2015? Last time Stewart had an air show--about 15 years ago--it took two years to organize. How they're going to do this one with two months to organize it baffles me. I have tried contacting Stewart Airport administration--they never bothered to respond to my query for vendor information--and ICAS responded, "Never heard of it. Are you sure you don't mean the Coney Island air show?"
My interest is in trying to determine if our local Tuskegee Airmen chapter can somehow participate, but I'm getting nowhere.
They claim to be expecting 80,000 visitors to "the biggest event ever to be held at Stewart Airport." How they're going to park that many cars is beyond me. They have airline-passenger parking lots that I'm guessing will hold 5,000 cars including the overflow lot. and using the airport ramp for parking is out of the question. The NYANG 105th Airlift Wing is based at SWF, as well as a Marine C-130 refueling wing, and their security would be impossibly compromised by tens of thousands of cars suddenly parked inside the security fence.
Does anybody have any information confirming that this air show is actually gonna happen? So far, it consists of a minimal website--the "contact us" page is still "under construction"--but as we all know, anybody can build a website...
Thu Jun 25, 2015 7:17 pm
Hi Stephan,
http://airshowny.com/They are also on FB, where they seem to be pretty responsive to people posting questions. You may want to start there.
https://www.facebook.com/airshowny?fref=tsWithout a Jet Team the line up at present is a bit on the light side. I only see about two hours of flying. I'm hoping they fill it out a bit with more warbirds, military fly-by's and civilian acro to make it a good show.
They do have the Horsemen though! 3 P51's, that's enough to get me to head up there!
SWF has had airshows in the past and they parked the cars on the grounds. The last one was 2003 I believe. The last one I attended was 1988.