Aggressive Polish Tiger Demo Team F-16C Display | RIAT 2025 (Sunday)

Flying display of the Lockheed-Martin F-16C Jastrząb Block 52+ of the Polish Air Force on Sunday of the 2025 Royal International Air Tattoo.

The Polish Air Force has brought its F-16 Tiger Demo Team to RIAT for the first time since 2018.

The team was due to attend last year as part of the 50th anniversary of the first flight of the F-16 in 1974 but was cancelled.
They have returned this year with an incredible display routine flown by now Lieutenant Colonel Maciej ‘SLAB’ Krakowian who was also the 2024 display pilot, as well as 2023.

Update: SLAB unfortunately passed during a training accident in August this year, he has now been posthumously promoted to lieutenant colonel.

I am hoping that the team will continue with a new pilot that will honour Lt. Col Krakowian.

The team is based at the 31st Tactical Air Base which is located near Poznań along with the rest of the Polish F-16 fleet.

Known as the Jastrząb (Hawk) in Polish service, as to not be confused with the W-3 Sokół helicopter also in Polish service, as Sokół (Falcon) is what the F-16 is typically referred as.

The Polish Air Force has operated F-16C/D Block 52+ types since 2006.

Timestamps -

00:00 - 00:25 | Takeoff
00:25 - 06:08 | Display
06:08 - 06:46 | Landing
06:46 - 06:56 | Outro

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