Every year, one of the highlights of the National Day Parade is the NDP Flypast. This year, the NDP Flypast 2024 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
The popular Fly Our Flag segment of the flypast is now into its fifth year and will once again take the national flag to the heartlands.
The Fly Our Flag segment will take place from 5.45 pm to 6.30 pm, 9 August 2024
The state flag will be slung under two CH-47SD/F Chinooks Heavy Lift Helicopters that will each be escorted by AH-64D Apache Attack Helicopters.
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The Fly Our Flag segment will be split into two routes – one for the western part of Singapore and another for the eastern side of the island.
It will start at around 5.45 pm before ending at around 6.30 pm.
Fly Our Flag Western Route
The western route will comprise locations such as Woodlands, Choa Chu Kang, Bukit Batok, Jurong and West Coast before heading along the coast towards Sentosa.
Fly Our Flag Eastern Route
The eastern Fly Our Flag route will fly east to locations such as Seletar, Sengkang, Punggol, Pasir Ris, Bedok and East Coast before heading along the East Coast towards Sentosa.
Some online commentators have even remarked that together, the two Fly Our Flag routes create a heart shape.
The flight routes may be subject to change.
NDP Flypast 2024 Around the Island
For 2024, the NDP flypast will feature six F-16s and take place on on 9 August from 6 pm to 6.30 pm.
The F-16 is a multi-role fighter aircraft with a distinctive frameless bubble canopy.
The timing of the NDP flypast 2024 will be from 6 pm to 6.30 pm.
The route of the NDP Island Flypast 2024 will see the aircraft encircling two routes above Singapore. Starting from the coast around Pandan Reservoir are, it will make for a clockwise route that takes it over Jurong West, Choa Chu Kang, Bukit Batok and Clementi.
Then the F-16s will fly up towards Woodlands and flyover Seletar, Punggol, and round to Bendemeer and To Payoh and looping up as far west as Bukit Batok and Choa Chu Kang.
The NDP 2024: F-16 Island Flypast route 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 fly the Red Lions over the Padang to conduct the crowd favourite Military Free Fall segment.
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-47SD/F Heavy Lift Helicopter, escorted by two AH-64D Apache Attack Helicopters, will carry the State Flag past the Padang during the National Anthem.
During the “Salute to the Nation”, five F-16 fighter aircraft will carry out the bomb-burst
manoeuvre over the Padang after the National Anthem as a mark of respect and a
salute to Singapore.
Get more details about this year’s National Day Parade.
