Every year, one of the highlights of the National Day Parade is the NDP Flypast. This year, the NDP Flypast 2025 will features both an island flypast that goes over the heartlands as well as the ever popular Fly Our Flag segment where the Singapore flag gets flown across the island.
Fly Our Flag Flypast
The popular Fly Our Flag segment of the flypast is now into its six year and will once again take the national flag to the heartlands.
The Fly Our Flag segment will take place from 5.30 pm to 6.20 pm, 9 August 2025.
The state flag will be slung under two CH-47 Chinook Heavy Lift Helicopters that will each be escorted by a pair of AH-64D Apache Attack Helicopters.
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The Fly Our Flag segment will be split into two routes – one that covers the western part of Singapore and another for the eastern side of the island.
It will start at around 5.30 pm before ending at around 6.20 pm.
Fly Our Flag Western Route
The western route will comprise locations such as Bukit Batok, Woodlands, Choa Chu Kang, Jurong and West Coast before heading along the coast towards Sentosa.
Fly Our Flag Eastern Route
The eastern Fly Our Flag route will see the flag flying east to locations such as Seletar, Sengkang, Punggol, Pasir Ris, Tampines, Bedok and East Coast before heading along the East Coast towards Sentosa.
Take note that the flight routes may be subject to change.
Other Air Participation at the Padang and Marina Bay
Additionally, you can also expect to view other RSAF aircraft during the National Day Parade.
In the pre-parade segment at the Padang, the RSAF’s C-130 transport aircraft will transport the Red Lions over the Padang.
This year, you can also look forward to viewing and the H225M Medium Lift Helicopter transporting the Republic of Singapore Navy’s Naval Divers over the Marina Bay as part of teh the inaugural Jump of Unity..
Then, during the Parade and Ceremony segment, there will be the “State Flag Flypast” and “Salute to the Nation” segments.
For the “State Flag Flypast”, a CH-47 Heavy Lift Helicopter, escorted by two AH-64D Apache Attack Helicopters, will carry the State Flag past the Padang during the National Anthem.
This year, during the “Salute to the Nation”, six F-16 fighter aircraft will carry out the bomb-burst manoeuvre with afterburners over the Padang after the National Anthem as a mark of respect and a salute to Singapore.
SG60 Aerial Displays
Additionally, there will also be two special aerial displays during the SG60 parade.
Six F-15SG fighters will conduct an SG60 Tribute in a delta formation, with the outer wingmen turning outwards before transiting into full afterburner climbs to symbolise continued peace and prosperity for the nation. The remaining four F-15SG fighters will continue to fly through in a diamond formation.
Then, four F-16 fighters will execute a diamond cross turn, with the left and right wingmen breaking to the left and right respectively, followed by lead aircraft breaking to the left and the final aircraft breaking to the right.
Mobile Column x Aircraft Segments
The Mobile Column will also integrate with 22 aircraft in four formations during the National Day Parade. The four flypast formations will be integrated with different land vehicle packets during the “Defending Our Nation” and “Our Strength in Action” segments of the Mobile Column, which will also include one ASTER 30, two SPYDER and two MPSTAR from the RSAF’s Ground-Based Air Defence systems.
Multi Axis Flypast
Look out for six F-15SG fighters approaching the Padang from two opposite directions, flypast each other before going into full afterburner climbs.
Jet Formation Flypast
Then, there will be a flypast by one A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport, four F-16 fighters and one G550-Airborne Early Warning aircraft, coming in from the west.
Helicopter Formation Flypast
The rotary wing formation will consist of one S-70B Seahawk, two AH-64D Apache Attack Helicopters, two H225M Medium Lift Helicopters and one CH-47 Heavy Lift Helicopter entering from the south.
Transport Formation Flypast
The last formation will consist of two C-130 Hercules aircraft and two Fokker-50 transport aircraft ingressing from the east to showcase the assets used in our humanitarian assistance and peace support operations.
NDP Flypast 2025: Fighter Island Flypast on 10 August
For 2025, things will be slightly different as the Fighter Island flypast will take place on 10 August.
The Fighter Island Flypast 2025 will feature four F-16s flying a diamond formation.
The F-16 is a multi-role fighter aircraft with a distinctive frameless bubble canopy.
The timing of the NDP flypast 2025 on 10 August will be from 6 pm to 6.30 pm. .
The route of the NDP Island Flypast 2025 will see the aircraft make a loop above Singapore. Starting from the south of Singapore, the planes will fly through the South West, North West, North East, South East, and Central districts of Singapore. Each loop will be flown twice to allow Singaporeans to have time to enjoy the flypast.
The NDP 2025: F-16 Island Flypast route may be subject to change.
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