Beverly to hold it's Annual 2018 Beverly Regional Airshow

The 2018 Beverly Regional Airshow to support the Cystic Fibrosis is coming to Beverly Municipal Airport on Saturday September 8th - Sunday September 9th, 2018. Admission to this family event is only $10 for adults & $5 for children under the age of 13! Please note that Admission is only valid for single day visit and re-entry is allowed with re-entry stamp provided at entry point. Tickets sold at this event are sold only in a Cash Only form so please remember in advance. This event will feature many family friendly events and activities that everyone will enjoy including.

Military Demonstrations

Our Unites States Military will be providing us with a Lockheed C-130
aircraft for static display. In addition, the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker
will be doing flyovers before and after our aerial performances to get
the crowd going!

Aircraft on Display

In addition to an awesome aerial show, we
will have numerous aircraft on display on the ground too! This will
allow you to get up close and personal with an actual airplane and talk
to the pilots who fly them! Feel free to ask the pilot questions about
flying, and maybe even sit in the pilot seat and see what it feels like
to sit behind the controls!

Aerial Performances

Flyovers
Stay tuned to see what we have in store for airplane flyovers!

Air Adventures Skydiving
What would an airshow be without skydivers falling from the sky? Our aerial
events will kickoff with a professional skydiving team flying our
nations colors gracefully to the ground.

Dan Marcotte
Dan’s show features the Ultimate 10-200 Biplane. Designed by Gordon Price,
the Ultimate is a unique biplane. Its four, full span ailerons provide a
400 degree per second roll rate. It also utilizes an aileron/elevator
interconnect system that produces unique low speed flight
characteristics. Dan enters his maneuvers at speeds of up to 250 MPH.
Stressed for +/- 10 Gs, Dan operates the airplane at G loads of up to
plus 7 and minus 6 G’s. With just the right balance of classic
aerobatics, unique tumbles, tailslides, spins, and signature maneuvers,
Dan’s show keeps the audience riveted from take-off to landing. In 2011
Dan added a knife-edge ribbon cut to his repertoire to the delight of
spectators! Dan’s unique background in racing and aviation, his
infectious enthusiasm, and his innate ability to become “one” with his
machine captivate audiences wherever he performs.

Trevor Rafferty
Trevor is from Hamilton Ontario and lives on the airport that he grew up
around, working on and flying airplanes with his father. Hamilton is a
working class steel town and Trevor’s other job is a maintenance
mechanic in a steel coating plant. Trevors airplane, the Javelin, is a
one of a kind unlimited aerobatic airplane. Powered by a 360 cubic inch
Lycoming engine, swinging a Whirlwind carbon fiber propeller. The
airframe is a fabric covered welded steel structure and the wing is all
wood. Because of the very specific quality requirements for aircraft
grade lumber, a mill in British Columbia was contracted to harvest and
mill a sitka spruce tree for the boards that would become the wing
structure. The aircraft was completed in the summer of 2007 and towards
the end, the project became such an obsession that Trevor would sleep in
the hangar rather than go home at night.

Jacqueline Warda
By the time she was 32 years old, she decided she was tired of hearing
herself say “I wish I could fly an airplane”. She enrolled in ground
school and the rest is history, as they say. She earned her Private
Pilot certificate in 1987 and shortly thereafter was introduced to the
world of aerobatics. Shortly thereafter a friend offered her a ride in a
Pitts Special and she jumped at the chance to do a different kind of
flying. With that first flight of loops, rolls, spins and a few other
very scary maneuvers, she was instantly hooked on aerobatics.
When most people turn 50, they figure it’s time to relax and settle into
neutral while coasting toward retirement. Not Jacquie B! When Jacquie
turned 50, she launched her solo aerobatic career with her one-of-a-kind
Pitts Special biplane. During the centennial celebration of powered
flight in 2003, Jacquie finally quit the humdrum of a white collar
profession and realized her dream as an air show performer, becoming the
first female pilot to enter this business at the age of 50.

Kevin Russo
Kevin was born in Montreal, Canada and now makes his home in North Branch, New
Jersey with his daughter Spenser who is 16 years old and happens to be
his crew chief. Kevin was 15 years old when he started to fly. He soloed
on his 16th birthday and received his pilot’s license on his 17th
birthday. Kevin went on to get his Commercial, Instrument, Multi-Engine
and Instructor ratings by the age of 19. He now holds Commercial Glider,
Helicopter and ATP ratings and has logged over 23,000 hours flying
military, airliners and corporate aircraft. North American Aviation’s “T-6, SNJ, Harvard” Texan was one of the most important aircrafts developed during the 1930’s. As an advanced trainer for the
military, AT-6 for the Army, SNJ for the Navy and Harvard for Canada, it
featured retractable landing gear, increased power (600 HP), and more
sophisticated controls, as well as two .30 caliber machine guns, gun
camera and bomb rack fittings. Through its career the AT-6 served as a
trainer for instrument flight, aerobatics, bombing and gunnery, and,
equipped with a tail hook, as an aircraft for carrier qualifications.

RC Jet Demonstration
Ever see a remote controlled jet? Ever see one at 180 miles per hour? Come
see the RC jet demonstration put on their own airshow with remotely
controlled jets! After the show get up close and personal with these
small aircraft and ask the pilots what goes into this awesome hobby.

Food Vendors

The Beverly Regional Airshow has chosen local food trucks to be our
food and drink vendors this year. Food trucks have a unique following
and seem to be the up and coming vendors of choice all over the country!
With 12+ trucks to choose from, we think that food trucks will provide
unique and delicious food options for everyone to enjoy!
The following food trucks will be participating at our event.

• Open Season
• Baby’s Bonetown BBQ
• Away Café
• The Whoopie Wagon
• Teddy’s Lunchbox
• Kona Ice
• Boston Burger Company
• The Cookie Monstah
• Chik Chak Food Truck
• Curbside Caps
• Copperdome Pizza

Entertainment

The Darren Bessette Band
Six completely different musical backgrounds and countless years of experience makeup
the Darren Bessette Band. Members of the band have opened for and toured
over the years with megastars like Kenny Chesney, Garth Brooks, Hank
Williams Jr., and many of the biggest acts in between. The Band hails
from Massachusetts and we are happy to have them performing at the
Airshow!

DJ
During the show while the band isn’t playing, our DJ and master of ceremonies will be playing the
latest hits and providing information on what’s happening around the
event.