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Aero Friedrichshafen – Tuesday 21st to Sunday 26th April 2026
As a 6-day trip, we will spend 3.5 days visiting the popular Aero event held every year at Friedrichshafen. A large static as always is expected with around 200 aircraft in and the exhibition halls and this event usually attracts lots of visiting aircraft. Many of these visiting aircraft come and go each day so it is well worth spending time here each day with over 800 visitors noted during our 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2022 visits. Numbers were well down in 2023 & 2024 but the local weather was terrible! 2025 was much better….
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It is planned to fly to Zurich and met up during the evening of Tuesday 21st April. We will then drive and overnight at Bouchs/Stans, home of Pilatus Aircraft manufacturing, for an early morning look at the hangars and flightlines – this has been very successful in the past.
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It is planned to fly to Zurich and met up during the evening of Tuesday 21st April. We will then drive and overnight at Bouchs/Stans, home of Pilatus Aircraft manufacturing, for an early morning look at the hangars and flightlines – this has been very successful in the past.
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Continuing with Wednesday 22nd April, we will drive to Friedrichshafen where we have accommodation that is just 20 minutes drive from the spotting points at Friedrichshafen airfield. Accommodation for a group of people is hard to come by in the local area whilst this event is on. On the way to Friedrichshafen, we will stop at Konstanz and Markdorf.
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Continuing with Wednesday 22nd April, we will drive to Friedrichshafen where we have accommodation that is just 20 minutes drive from the spotting points at Friedrichshafen airfield. Accommodation for a group of people is hard to come by in the local area whilst this event is on. On the way to Friedrichshafen, we will stop at Konstanz and Markdorf.
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We will spend the remainder of Wednesday, all day Thursday 23rd, all day Friday 24th and the morning of Saturday 25th at Friedrichshafen giving plenty of time to observe the arriving and departing Aero visitors or to take your time looking around the Aero exhibition halls. Each day we will also visit nearby Markdorf where more Aero visitors are to be found – we saw around 400 different aircraft here during each of our combined 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2022 visits but again, numbers were down in 2023 & 2024 due to poor weather. As mentioned earlier, 2025 was much better again due to improved weather.
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Also to be visited is the excellent Dornier Museum also located at Friedrichshafen. If the weather is terrible, as a group, we also have the option to do the FFA Museum at Altenrhein.
When the group is happy to leave Friedrichshafen on Saturday 25th and for most of Sunday 26th we head to Zurich for our flights home, and so we will have time on both days to visit some German & Swiss airfields and wrecks & relics on the way back to Zurich.
We will spend the remainder of Wednesday, all day Thursday 23rd, all day Friday 24th and the morning of Saturday 25th at Friedrichshafen giving plenty of time to observe the arriving and departing Aero visitors or to take your time looking around the Aero exhibition halls. Each day we will also visit nearby Markdorf where more Aero visitors are to be found – we saw around 400 different aircraft here during each of our combined 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2022 visits but again, numbers were down in 2023 & 2024 due to poor weather. As mentioned earlier, 2025 was much better again due to improved weather.
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Also to be visited is the excellent Dornier Museum also located at Friedrichshafen. If the weather is terrible, as a group, we also have the option to do the FFA Museum at Altenrhein.
When the group is happy to leave Friedrichshafen on Saturday 25th and for most of Sunday 26th we head to Zurich for our flights home, and so we will have time on both days to visit some German & Swiss airfields and wrecks & relics on the way back to Zurich.
