Airshow wraps bumper week at Avalon

The Avalon Australian International Airshow 2025 has wrapped after six days, with a record industry attendance and strong public showing for the weekend airshow. Avalon 2025 attracted more than 200,000 attendances in total across the six days, including around 60,000 attendances across the three dedicated industry days, more than 10,000 above the 2023 industry total and more than 20,000 over the industry total for the 2019 event.

The industry days included 902 participating exhibitor companies from 28 nations, plus 291 industry, defence and academic delegations from 43 countries. This included 20 Chiefs of Air Force or equivalent, 18 international representatives and 7 US distinguished visitors.

Justin Giddings, CEO of Avalon Australian International Airshow organiser AMDA Foundation commented: “Avalon 2025 was all about engagement between industry, defence, the aviation and aerospace community and the general public. Feedback from our exhibitors and Air Force is that once again the airshow achieved this with flying colours, including the largest industry presence we have ever had at the event.  Aviation is a tight knit community, and an incident like this affects us all. Our thoughts are with Paul Bennet Airshows pilot Glenn Collins, his family and his team during this difficult time. The Paul Bennet Airshows team are all highly skilled professionals who have participated in our airshows for many years, always with a focus on delivering an exciting but safe performance. We look forward to welcoming the team at future events. In aviation and aerospace we are always trying to attract the next generation of innovators, and one of the great experiences of this event was seeing thousands of students learning about how aviation and aerospace can offer exciting and rewarding careers. We look forward to returning in 2027, to again deliver one of the world’s great airshows, for industry and the Australian public.”

Avalon 2025 featured more than 350 aircraft in the air and on the ground, including 45 aerial display aircraft and 64 exhibited by aviation manufacturers. Avalon 2025 also featured what may have been the largest single aviation industry careers and skills day ever held in Australia, with more than 7000 secondary and tertiary students participating in a program which included hearing from industry, Defence and two astronauts, including former NASA astronaut and Shuttle Commander Mike Bloomfield, and Australia’s first Australian-flagged astronaut, Katherine Bennell-Pegg.

Avalon 2025 data

• More than 200,000 attendances over the six days of the event
• More than 60,000 attendances during the Trade Days (biggest yet)
• More than 7,000 Careers Days students in attendance
• Around 350 aircraft displayed in the air or on the ground
• 902 participating exhibitor organisations from 28 nations
• 291 Delegations from 43 nations, including 20 Chiefs of Air Force or Counterparts, 18 representatives and 7 US dignitaries.
• 65 conferences, symposia and presentations