JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The NAS Jacksonville Air Show is one of the most exciting events of the year among locals, and now it\u2019s receiving some national recognition.<\/p>\n
The show is one of USA Today\u2019s 20 nominees in its 2026 Readers\u2019 Choice Awards for the 10Best Air Shows in the country.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Typically, the Blue Angels are the highlight of Jacksonville\u2019s air show, whether it\u2019s held at Jacksonville Beach or NAS Jax.<\/p>\n After hitting some turbulence in 2025 with the U.S. government shutdown, the Blue Angels are hoping for a smooth landing as they prepare for the NAS Jacksonville 2026 Air Show. <\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n \u201cThis year we\u2019ll be celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Blue Angels,\u201d Lt. Cmdr. Lilly Montana told Action News Jax in December<\/b><\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re actually founded here in Jacksonville, so this is a big homecoming for us.\u201d<\/p>\n Scheduled to perform this year, in addition to the Blue Angels, are the Thunderbirds.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n We told you back in October when the <\/b>Blues had to cancel<\/b><\/a> their performance in the Jacksonville Beach Sea and Sky Air Show due to the government shutdown. <\/p>\n The NAS Jax Air Show will take place October 17-18, 2026.<\/p>\n To vote for the show in the 10Best poll, click here<\/b><\/a>. Vote once per day until voting ends on Monday, April 27 at noon ET. The winning events will be announced on May 6.<\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The NAS Jacksonville Air Show is one of the most exciting events of the year…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":700658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[292801,7385,12189,123660,5229,12883,292799,159125,77014,7384,3188,723,11561,29913,13819,7310,12872,292805,53852,292803,292804,292798,292797,1561,1538,4540,85973,67,586,132,5230,68,292802,292800,2969,989,313],"class_list":["post-700657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-2026_air_show","tag-7day","tag-action_news","tag-airshow","tag-america","tag-beach","tag-blue_angel","tag-blue_angels","tag-blues","tag-first-alert-7-day-forecast","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-jack","tag-jack_madison_foglio","tag-jackson","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville_beach","tag-madison_publio","tag-nas","tag-nas_jacksonville","tag-nas_jacksonville_air_show","tag-nes_jack_air","tag-nes_jacks","tag-pensacola","tag-sea","tag-sky","tag-thunderbirds","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us_air_force","tag-us_government","tag-usa","tag-video","tag-weather"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}