Fursan Al Emarat (Arabic: فرسان الامارات; lit. 'The Knights of the Emirates') is the aerobatics Aeorabic display team of the United Arab Emirates Air Force and Air Defence. It was formed in 2008 with Italian-built Aermacchi MB-339NAT jet aircraft.[1] The team has a total of seven aircraft that symbolizes 7 Emirates, all seven of which are used for international airshows, locally they started their first show at Dubai Airshow and flew at the IDEX and Abu Dhabi formula1 Grand Prix and across the 7 emirates for 2 December National day celebrations, internationally the team has performed at Lima exhibition and their upcoming Airshow performance will be at Royal International Air Tattoo.
The team performed at the 2022 Bahrain International Airshow at Sakhir Air Base with five aircraft.[2]
References
- ^ "UAE debuts new aerobatic team: Key.Aero, Airshows". Archived from the original on 2012-03-12. Retrieved 2011-11-11.
- ^ AirForces Monthly. Stamford, Lincolnshire, England: Key Publishing Ltd. January 2023. p. 101.
