Best static display for several years.
It was actually the worst! Worse even than the decimated static after 9/11 in 2001. Only 7 visiting RAF aircraft in the static display - thank goodness for the Royal Navy who had an example of every aircraft type in their inventory on show.
Nothing to do with cutbacks - Waddington managed to have 30 odd RAF aircraft on static display. So why is Leuchars the poor cousin? Perhaps it has something to do with the amount of space required to accommodate the vast funfair or the assortment of tacky non-aviation stalls that Leuchars is now famed for.
Why also was it necessary to have BOTH RAF solo Hawk displays and YET AGAIN two F-16 displays??? It's only a one day show, and yet there were still horrendous gaps in the flying display despite all the padding.