The Best of 2014 Air Show award was not easy for the year 2014! But, we managed to come up with the best
for both civilian and military air shows.
The BEST overall:
Civilian winner was Wings Over Houston Air Show, held in the first week of November.
Military air show was MCAS Miramar Air Show, held in the first week of October.
RIAT 2014 in close second, which is actually a hybrid: neither true civilian nor military. Note we only rated air
shows, not fly‐ins, or exhibitions.
We compiled our list from all the air shows we had attended worldwide and while many were excellent in
their own right, they were not the winners. If you have doubts about our decisions, just read our reviews. It is
not just about the size of an air show, if only size would matter Oshkosh would qualify, although it is not truly
an air show either, but a mixture of fly‐in, air show, convention and etc. But we do not attend Oshkosh for
several reasons, one is their publication policy! Apart from that RIAT which is the largest one when not
counting home‐builds, and small civilian Cessnas and alike, had more aircraft than anyone else both flying
and on display, and of course there was the bi‐annual Farnborough which advertises itself as the largest one,
which is again only partially correct as it is not just an air show, but mostly an exposition for manufacturers
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