The $69 million a pop sounds of freedom will return to the skies above Seattle this week. It is time again for the Boeing Seafair Airshow. Below, you’ll find the schedule for the week’s practices and performances including when the U.S. Navy Blue Angels will be buzzing the Seattle area. The old days of bridge closures are gone thanks to changes in the locations for the performances and practices but the roar of the jets is apparently not going anywhere anytime soon.
From The Museum of Flight:
Blue Angel Flight Schedule
Aircraft arrival and flight times are approximate subject to change without notice. For the full Boeing Seafair Air Show (Aug. 4-6) schedule, please visit Seafair.org.
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
Aircraft arrival and flight times are approximate subject to change without notice.
- 8:15 AM – Blue Angel #7 Media Flights
- 12:20 PM – Fat Albert arrival
- 12:30 PM – Blue Angels #1-#6 arrival
Thursday, August 3, 2023
Aircraft arrival and flight times are approximate and subject to change without notice.
- 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM – Blue Angels #1-#4 Practice Flight
- 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM – Blue Angels #5-#6 Practice Flight
- 2:20 PM to 3:20 PM – Blue Angels #1-#4 Practice Flight
- 3:20 PM to 3:30 PM – Fat Albert Practice Flight
- 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM – Free First Thursday (the Museum stays open late for FREE!)
Friday, August 4, 2023
Aircraft arrival and flight times are approximate and subject to change without notice. Note: The Museum’s Main Parking lot will be closed to vehicle traffic in preparation for Jet Blast Bash. Please refer to parking information below.
- 1:20 PM – PBY Catalina takes off for Boeing Seafair Air Show (take-off time is approximate)
- 2:15 PM – B-17 takes off for Boeing Seafair Air Show (take-off time is approximate)
- 2:25 PM – B-25 takes off for Boeing Seafair Air Show (take-off time is approximate)
- 2:30 PM – Fat Albert takes off for Boeing Seafair Air Show (take-off time is approximate)
- 2:40 PM – Blue Angels #1-6 take off for Boeing Seafair Air Show (take-off time is approximate)
Event Details
Dates: Saturday and Sunday, August 5-6, 2023
Event Time: 11:00 AM to 4:00 PMSchedule
The timeline below is for both Saturday and Sunday, unless otherwise noted. Aircraft flight times are subject to change without notice. For the full Boeing Seafair Air Show schedule, please visit Seafair.org.
10:35 AM – PBY Catalina Flying Boat takes off for the Boeing Seafair Air Show (Sunday takes off at 1:20 PM; take-off times are approximate)
11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
- Family Art Activities
- McCormick & Schmick’s Beer Garden (21+ only)
- Live Broadcast from C89.5
11:00 AM to 2:00 PM
- Live music from The Afterparty
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM – Blue Angel History Talk (Location: William M. Allen Theater)
2:20 PM – Boeing B-17 takes off for the Boeing Seafair Air Show (time is approximate)
2:35 PM –Boeing B-25 takes off for the Boeing Seafair Air Show (time is approximate)
2:50 PM
- U.S. Navy Blue Angels Fat Albert takes off for the Boeing Seafair Air Show (time is approximate)
- U.S. Navy Blue Angels #1-#6 take off for the Boeing Seafair Air Show (time is approximate)
4:00 PM to 4:30 PM – U.S. Navy Blue Angel Pilots Meet ‘N Greet and Autographs (Sunday only — time is approximate, subject to change)
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Sounds of jingoism and fascism* there fixed it for you!
Nothing like spending hundreds of millions on unnecessary military propaganda 🙄
The sound of the carbon-emitting military industrial complex waving it’s dick around is more like it. But I bet you already knew that.
Any idea why the SeaFair website lists different times for the Blue Angels? I’ve been looking at this regularly on my dog’s behalf, so the headline is remarkably accurate.
I have no idea, I was thinking the same thing. I’ll call the museum of flight tomorrow to ask and can report back.
I don’t mind the planes but the crowds and tourists will be annoying
Love the Blue Angels’ performance. Love the hand-wringing of the complainers even more. Thank you.
Sure, but you know that people (such as military veterans) and pets have legit problems with the blue angels’ noise, you just don’t care.
Way to be a great person.
Fake complaint. Do dogs have a problem with the Capital Hill block party?
And do veterans have a problem with a New Year’s Eve celebration?
Both once a year.
both the capitol hill block party and the new years thing are localized events whose noise does not affect the entire city of seattle, unlike the blue angels.
but you know this, and you just don’t care, so own it.
The Capitol Hill Block Party and NYE celebrations are a different kind of sound. The sounds of fighter jets are the sounds heard in war zones, and can trigger PTSD in military veterans and even civilians (like myself). Cats and dogs have very sensitive hearing and are also disturbed by these EXTREMELY LOUD sounds. These complaints are very much real. Just because you are not bothered doesn’t mean these complaints are fake. You are not the center of the universe.
Looks like no bridge closure this year, but anyone have insight into impact on crossing I 90 Friday the 4th?
Sorry veterans with PTSD and people with noise sensitivity! Go fuck yourself! Fixed the headline 🙄
Oh FFS, stop using us vets to justify your weird dislike of choreographed air shows.
You know how many times any of us were on patrol or in an engagement and we had fighter planes screaming over our heads? Zero. The only aircraft we encounter during combat are drones and helicopters. Do you have the same feigned indignation toward helicopters 😏
FWIW what does remind us vets of deployments are overfilled portajohns, rip-its, stuck going 35 mph for hours on end, calling cards, aafes pogs, and tiny white Toyota pickup trucks. If you started a cause to get rid of all that then us vets would be forever thankful.
not all vets spent their service guarding portajohns, Brian.
also good point, helicopters are also very loud. maybe that’s why we don’t have annual helicopter shows over Seattle. hmmm.
DEEz, glad you missed the point. Not once during our patrols did we ever have fighter planes buzzing a few hundred feet overhead. We did have helo support, especially when we needed to medevac casualties. Helicopters = a common PTSD trigger, air shows not so much.
Using a misconception about vets to defend your personal distaste of something is pretty lame bud.
Not a vet, but I think you have credence in your response.
who elected you to speak for all vets, Brian?
pretty lame to speak for all vets based on your own uneventful service, bud.
here’s a group of military vets that has been campaigning against the blue angels specifically and other displays for a long time, Brian. You don’t speak for them.
https://www.veteransforpeace.org/
Domestic Terrorism
Oh, the Blue Angels….love ’em or hate ’em! (I’m in the latter camp).
WHO is responsible for wasting funds on this in these times? How do they justify NOT addressing BASIC issues like homelessness & crime or has the never-ending stupidity & corruption become America’s ultimate goal?
George Washington would have been a Contra
Go live next to the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station and ‘enjoy Freedom’
I thought we got over hanging patriotic terms on stuff as a means of bullying people to get our way.
This is recruitment not freedom. And we pay for this with tax dollars.
Google ‘Blue Angels carbon footprint’, then ask yourself if pollution for entertainment is worth it. Maybe when smoke season diminishes visibility so much we can’t see the planes we’ll move on.
I assume that you do not travel by airplane.
I love it when the passengers want to reuse a plastic cup as to not want to be wasteful when at the same time, they have chosen to travel on a craft that spews tons of carbon.
Love the Blue Angels! One of the highlights of the summer.
The reliably hyperbolic comments like “jingoism”, “fascism”, “propaganda”, “domestic terrorism”, and the winner “carbon-emitting military industrial complex waving it’s dick around” are almost as entertaining as the show itself.
one might say that protecting our NATO allies against Russian aggression is a legitimate use of our military assets, unlike the blue angels flying around Puget Sound.
let’s deploy the blues to “Ukaraine” instead of Seattle.
Sounds like seeing people suffer makes you happy… That pretty much sums up the Blue Angels energy and their fans.
This is a wholly American invention where we go beyond apathy but outright celebrating and reveling in the fact that you’re doing something that upsets others… It’s destroying the fabric of our country
Are people just satisfied with their annual complaint’s and lamentations on comment boards?
Because one could read the comments, and think something would come of it… But it’s just another board that’s lost in the ocean of the internet.
I’ve been here locally for 25 years, and while I am not lamenting this aspect of Seattle culture or anything, I am trying to make sense of what people are actually wanting out of their lives..
Is the whole plan just to get the moan in about the status quo, and continue on with life? Maybe get into a couple arguments online? Or if they’re real brave they might go protest… If they can. Whether it’s greater civic and voting participation or we all just smash the state, I don’t actually care anymore..
I’m just so tired of people just complaining. Especially when the exclusion in voting is less accessibility, and more no one knows how to get more involved than to drop their ballot in.(I’m talking about here in Washington. I am aware of the politics of this country and how some states run their systems.)
People can very easily flood the primary vote for candidacy, as it has been done before.
I’m just doing the same thing as anyone else. Adding my two cents. I mean noting personal, nor am I directing it at anyone either. Do your thing, I do mine, and will continue.
I’ll try to get some photos of the planes, and personally aside from the absurd noise, they are otherwise kinda neat.
But an object tearing through the atmosphere at 500+mph and doing maneuvers with sharp turns will make a lot of noise even if we didn’t have jet engines to roar.. That tearing sound you first hear while the plane still approaches is not the engines it’s the atmosphere being sliced through. Then the plane passes and the sounds of the engine pass by.
And I have no Idea what point there is to go further except to hope for better, and take available actions to enact what better we can, instead of repeating the same shite grand parents used to pip about 7 mile walks in snow to go to school.
I think it’s absurd that people use their experience and percieved suffering as a an excuse to minimize the leisure and comfort of future generations because we think it’s not fair that they get an easier time.(But the kicker is that generation literally had it the easiest without major wars, and got to ride the coat tails of pax americana and then started sending early millenials and gen x to fight in bullshit wars…)>>(And I know fools can twist my words to mean some extra if they feel real spicy…)
That’s the fuggin point of life… To evolve? To adapt.. Tho some people think it’s meaning is were actually in the midst of some shadowy cosmic battle..
I like fantasy and mythology too..
I am stoned and thanks for coming to my ted talk…
If you can’t appreciate the skill and precision of the pilots, and the sheer power and grace of these aircraft, that is your loss. I don’t enjoy the suffering of others, but I honestly don’t understand the dislike. Then again I like the noise. I get as close as I can.
Try living directly under their flight path. Lived in downtowns of major cities, next to high rise construction projects, and next to the Pike/Pine corridor and the Capitol Block Party. Blue Angels are waaaaaay louder.
Clearly some of us don’t care for the noise, and don’t have the choice to just leave or turn it off.
I love it! I loved it when i was a kid and it’s always fun to take my kiddos to see and enjoy the show and create memories.
While the rest of these complaining losers want to hide in their house because they’re afraid of noise.
People want to complain until they remove every last bit of culture or fun from this city that doesn’t involve grotesque celebrations of “Pride,” rainbows and blue hair. We put up with the sight and sound of degeneracy for a whole month, you’re gonna take these sounds of freedom whether you like it or not ☺️
The inmates don’t get to run the asylum. Seek help.
The sounds of the military industrial complex and death and destruction that it causes and symbolizes is not culture, get a life man! Also, I’m sorry that people celebrating life and pride is grotesque to you, while machines designed to maim and destroy seem to make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, I think you’re the grotesque one!