No. 2 Squadron Skyhawk display team

[Dave Homewood]

Was there an aerobatic display team attached to No. 2 Squadron during their Skyhawk years?

I've rea of the squadron appearing at various airshows in Aussie whilst based at Nowra but no more.

Can anyone confirm if there was a team or not? And if there was, any deatils of teams, venues, dates, pilots, etc?

Thanks.

[skyhawkdon]

Not that I'm aware of Dave. We performed at many airshows and events both in NZ and Australia but never as a formal dispay "team". Solo handling displays and multi aircraft mock attacks were regularly carried out while 2 Sqn was in Nowra. They even performed at Bathurst a couple of times.

[Dave Homewood]

Ah right, thanks Don.

[corsair67]

Dave, they also flew to Canberra on a few occasions too for the GMC400 car race and for open days at the War Memorial.

The last time we saw 2SQN in Canberra was for their farewell flypast in early Dec 2001: very sad day indeed.