The Italian Frecce Tricolori Display Team Celebrate Their 60th Anniversary
The Italian Frecce Tricolori Display Team Celebrate Their 60th Anniversary
The Frecce Tricolori display team performing the Rome flyover (Image credit: Alessandro Fucito)
The Frecce Tricolori is the Italian Air Force aerobatic display team. It’s the world’s largest military display team.
On Mar. 1, 2021 the Frecce Tricolori, the display team of the Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force), celebrated their 60th anniversary.
The unit, also known as the Pattuglia Acrobatica Nazionale (PAN, Italian Aerobatic Team) is, undoubtedly, the most popular and visible component of the Italian Air Force as well as a symbol of Italy: with its 10 Italian built aircraft – the MB.339A/PAN – the “Frecce” (Italian for “Arrows”) – form one of the world’s most prestigious aerobatic teams which offers, in around 25 minutes of display, a show that is almost unforgettable even to the most knowledgeable spectators, together with a demonstration of capacity, courage, pride of an entire Nation.