A Carnival Airshow?
Run by the unpaid volunteers of the Dawlish Carnival Committee, the airshow forms part of the Dawlish Carnival event. It exists to provide entertainment for all people and seeks to ensure all who are involved in the event whether helpers, performers, sponsors, entrants and traders as well as the public enjoy it and benefit as much as possible from being involved. 

The organisation is “not-for-profit” running to break even with surpluses being used to provide grants to local charities and good causes. The most attended and participated carnival procession in Devon follows just hours after the airshow.

2007 Statistics!

• 60,000 spectators,

• 25,000 of these in the designated crowd areas.

• 2km of sea front display line at multiple levels.

• Forms part of the bigger 8- day Carnival Event

• Largest event in Devon (Another 5,000 people a day)

• 140 volunteer staff from collectors to “heli” ground crew

• 28 Aircraft and 2 RNLI lifeboats displaying

• 2 static aircraft viewing areas outside of the main designated crowd areas.

• 3500 event programmes and 1500 airshow programmes

• 3 key sponsors, 4 aircraft sponsors and 9 smaller sponsors

• All accommodation in a 10-mile radius fully booked 3 months in advance primarily for the Carnival event

• £5 million pounds worth of trade and business generated by the event.

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