San Javier will host the largest air festival of the year celebrating 40 years of the Eagle Patrol

The ‘Aire 25’ air event at FITUR 2025 was created by the Murcia City Council of San Javier to honour the Air and Space Army’s Eagle Patrol’s 40th anniversary. It will happen on June 14th and 15th. It is going to be the most important aviation event in Spain this year.

Last week, the Murcia Region booth at the FITUR 2025 megatourism fair in Madrid was the place where the “Aire 25” air festival was introduced. The festival will take place over the Mar Menor, in front of the beaches of the town of San Javier in Murcia. It was already known about this event in December, when Air General Francisco Braco, who is the JEMA (Chief of the Air Staff), spoke to the public.

The general said that this year is the 40th anniversary of the Águila aerobatic patrol. The patrol uses CASA (now Airbus Defence & Space) C-101 training jets to perform in Spain and at foreign events where Spain is represented. While AJEMA didn’t give us any more information at the time, the FITUR presentation has given us more information. It will be the “Aire 25” event, and it will happen on Saturday 14th and Sunday15th June.

At the San Javier air base, the C-101s are flown by experienced teacher pilots from the General Air Academy (AGA), which is part of the Air and Space Force and has been training future pilots since 1943. Other pilots from the Spanish Navy, the Civil Guard, and other countries also work at the base.

It’s been a practice for the council of Murcia and the AGA to get along well, which makes it easier to put on air festivals. In this regard, the city’s current mayor, José Miguel Luengo, said at FITUR, while the Patrulla Águila pilots were there: “This event, which will be the most important in Europe, will bring together international patrols in a way that has never been seen before.”

‘Air 25’ was last held in June 2018, to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of the AGA. The event took place in the same location and included an open day at the base and a day of air shows off the coast of Murcia, which 300,000 people watched. The Air and Space Force thinks that up to 500,000 people could be at this year’s event. The institution’s social networks say that soon it will be known who else will be there besides the Águila, Aspa, and PAPEA (Air Force Acrobatic Parachute Patrol) teams.

More information can be found https://www.aire25.es/