Blue Angels will headline California Capital Airshow for the first time in six years
The capital region will have a chance to see the Blue Angels jet across Sacramento’s sky in 2025.
The California Capital Airshow announced Friday that the Navy’s elite flight demonstration squadron will be the headliner for their spring event. The air show will return to Mather Airport for the weekend of
March 22 and 23.
The Blue Angels last performed at the airshow in 2019, said spokesperson Lindsey Nelson. Sacramento will be the second stop of the team’s 2025 tour.
“We are so excited to have the Blue Angels back,” Darcy Brewer, executive director of the California Capital Airshow, said in the announcement. “Their return to Sacramento has been highly anticipated, and we’re proud to be one of the team’s first stops following their Winter training.”
The Blue Angels were first formed in 1946 and is one of the world’s oldest formal aerial aerobatic teams. The Blue Angels’ heart-pounding maneuvers in a formation of six F/ A-18E Super Hornets are slated to perform 64 demonstrations at 32 stops across the country for its 79th season.
The team’s return to Mather Airport will mark the California Capital Airshow’s 19th year in the Sacramento area. The two-day airshow has been around since 2004 and has brought tens of thousands of spectators to the former Mather Air Force Base near Rancho Cordova.
Fans who attend the 2025 airshow will have a chance to see a “dynamic lineup of top military and civilian performers, plus miles of exhibits on the ground,” organizers said.
Ticket sales are expected to be announced soon on the show’s website.