Varanasi will host the Indian Air Force's ‘Wings Over Ganges’ aerial display on October 25, 2023. This event will feature fighter aircraft, helicopters, and aerobatic teams performing over the Ganga. The display is part of the service’s 94th anniversary celebrations and will include nine formations. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to attend the aerial show. Rehearsals have already been conducted in Varanasi in preparation for the main event.
Varanasi will host the Indian Air Force’s ‘Wings Over Ganges’ aerial display on October 25, bringing together fighter aircraft, helicopters, transport planes and aerobatic teams for a series of performances over the Ganga as part of the service’s 94th anniversary celebrations. This is the fifth time the IAF is holding a flypast outside the national capital region. The parade and the flypast used to take place at Palam Air Force Base till 2005, then the venue changed to Hindan, in Ghaziabad in UP. The IAF Day parade still takes place at Hindan, but the flypast has moved away from NCR under the Prime Minister's directive. Varanasi is the fifth location of this grand aerial spectacle. Previously, the event has taken place in Guwahati (2025), Chennai (2024), Prayagraj (2023) and Chandigarh (2022).The event, planned at Namo Ghat, will feature nine specially named formations and displays involving aircraft from different generations of the IAF fleet. The formations will include ‘Kashi’, ‘Varun’, ‘Kedar’, ‘Hanuman’, ‘Sarnath’, ‘Omkar’, ‘Ganga’, ‘Prachand’ and ‘Dashashwamedh’. 94 aircraft will participate in the aviation programme to mark 94 years of the IAF. This will include the Su-30MKI, Rafale, Jaguar, Mirage 2000, Tejas and MiG-29, alongside helicopters such as the Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) Prachand, Advanced Light Helicopter, Apache, Chinook, Chetak and Mi-17 V5.
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