In the lead-up to this year’s Pacific Airshow on October 4-6, Pacific Airshow's leader, Kevin Elliott, graciously gave Simple Flying an interview while setting up America’s largest beach airshow. The airshow is an annual three-day spectacular with fighter jets, heavies, short take-off and landing (STOL) aircraft, and more – all because an American had a dream coupled to work ethic. From remote-control airplanes to managing the Pacific Airshow Kevin Elliott’s journey in aviation began with flying remote-control airplanes as a child in the Huntington Beach area.
In 2016, having set up an events firm after working at Boeing, Mr. and Mrs. Elliott had a fun day at the airshow and offered to help.
Then Mr. Elliott took over and rebranded the airshow to have “regional appeal”. Now, the same airshow has two chapters – Huntington Beach, California, and Gold Coast, Australia.
Below are some photos from the Australian version: The thinking behind Pacific Airshow is that, as Kevin Elliott explains,. “Run this sort of non-traditional air show in a very nontraditional environment that ..
.it's something for everybody at the Pacific Air Show. It appeals to my mom, my sister, who wouldn't otherwise go out to a hot runway or an airfield, you know, but I'll certainly go down to the beach and stand in the sand and watch an air show.
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The air show introduces new people to air shows and to aircraft that have never thought about being interested in an F-35 or an F-22.” As Ellio.