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f everything had gone as planned, this year would have been the 50th anniversary of the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT). Unfortunately, as with all major events, this year’s RIAT also fell victim to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the past years, we have always reported about this unique, worldwide largest military aviation event. This year, we take a look back at the first RIAT in the new millennium, 20 years ago. At that time, more than 360 aircraft came to the Air Tattoo at RAF Cottesmore: about 290 military aircraft, 70 civil aircraft and four
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aerobatic teams. This made the RIAT in July 2000 one of the largest Air Tattoos ever. Let us hope that the RIAT will be back in 2021 The following abbreviations were used for the different air forces: AustrAF Austrian Air Force BAF Belgian Air Force BrAF Brazilian Air Force BulAF Bulgarian Air Force
