RCAF Pauses CF-18 Demo Team

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The Royal Canadian Air Force says it's standing down its CF-18 demonstration team for the 2025 season while it gets ready for its new fleet of CF-35A fighters. The first aircraft won't start replacing the 40-year-old CF-18 Hornets until 2029 but there is apparently much to do in the interim. “To commit more resources to this transition, for the 2025 Air Show season, the RCAF will not stand up its typical CF-18 Hornet Demonstration Team, but will instead showcase a small number of non-aerobatic Tactical Demonstrations," the RCAF said in a news release. There was no mention of any impact on the Snowbirds Air Demonstration Team.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/rcaf-pauses-cf-18-demo-team
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The thin edge of the probable?

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The F18 demo show is pretty low stress, it’s not like a snowbirds event, not huge resource drain.

This inability to “walk and chew gum” exposes the lack of funding and commitment by the federal government to keep Canadian forces at any level of readiness.

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Canada? Where is that?
They have military?

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