The Red Arrows completed their 60th season in October and are now well into winter training for next year. It concludes a diamond anniversary-themed season, with the Reds performing 50 displays and 22 high-profile flypasts across the UK, mainland Europe and Canada.

The team's 60th campaign has been celebrated throughout 2024. This has spanned everything from a new nine-aircraft display and special artwork applied to the team's jets, to magazines and even Royal Mail releasing a Red Arrows stamp collection.

Lincolnshire's iconic aerobatics display team also carried out a hugely-successful five-week tour of Canada to mark the centennial of the Royal Canadian Air Force. The 2024 season was Squadron Leader Jon Bond's first as Team Leader and Red 1.

He said: "Thank you to everyone who attended airshows, events and flypasts for being so enthusiastic, so encouraging and for making this such a standout year - a year when we've marked 60 sensational seasons for the Red Arrows. Every single person in the team was focused on rebuilding and returning our Diamond Nine to the skies for this diamond celebration.

"Even more fulfilling to us all this season has been those reactions and comments where individuals, families and young people in particular, have told us they've been inspired by the team's flying and engagement. As someone who, as a child, was motivated to become a pilot after seeing the Red Arrows perform, this is massively rewarding."

Attention now turns to preparing for next year's campaign, with training set begin shortly at the team's home base of RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire. This is done using a building block approach - aircraft formations grow in size and complexity before all nine jets fly together in the New Year.

The season then usually gets underway around May following a formal assessment called Public Display Authority.