Airshow Flies Into Ocean City This Weekend: See What's In Store

OCEAN CITY, NJ — Turn your eyes to the sky this weekend as the airshow flies into Ocean City.

Ocean City’s Air Show Weekend, held Sept. 13 and 14, is full of free events.

The celebration starts with the Ocean City Airport Festival on Saturday (Sept. 13) from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The festival features a ground display of unusual airplanes ranging from World War II planes to warbirds and classics, according to the Ocean City Chamber of Commerce. The event will feature a parachute jump from Team Fastrax, “America’s Skydiving Team.” It also will include food vendors, music, vehicle displays and kids’ activities.

The skydiving team will perform at the Airport Festival at 12 p.m., depending on wind and weather conditions. Ocean City Council Vice President Pete Madden is scheduled to make a tandem jump with one of the team professionals.

A half-mile “Runway Run/Walk” is open to all ages. It offers a chance for anybody to cover ground normally traversed only by planes. The run will go off immediately after the skydiving jump. Children’s activities will include airplane and coloring contests between 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. All-day activities include face-painting, helicopter rides available for purchase, city vehicle displays and special guests Martin and Mollie Mollusk.

The festival takes place at the Municipal Airport at 26th Street and Bay Avenue. Additional parking for the festival will be available at Shelter Road (off Tennessee Avenue) with free shuttle service provided.

The Parachute Pyrotechnic Show will go off over Ocean City at 8 p.m. Saturday (Sept. 13). The show consists of several highly trained and specially licensed Team Fastrax parachuters exiting an aircraft 6,000 feet above Ocean City’s beach and boardwalk. Brilliant white or multi-colored projectile pyrotechnics are then ignited as the parachuters fly in formation, creating a dazzling display for spectators on the ground. The jump will end with a landing tentatively on the Seventh Street Beach and will be viewable along the entire Boardwalk.

The Boardwalk Aerobatic Air Show will bring some of the best stunt pilots and aerobatic champions in the nation to put on a show over the beach and boardwalk starting at 1 p.m. Sunday (Sept. 14).

This year’s show will welcome Team Fastrax, Kevin Russo, the Jersey Jerks, Rick Volker, the NextGen Eagles, Robert “Rooster” Schmidle, the Coast Guard and a flyover of a KC-46A Pegasus from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.

The best place to view the show is the area between Fifth Street and 14th Street.

There is no rain date, but clear skies are in the forecast.