Kentucky Derby Festival

In The Air

Welcome to Thunder Over Louisville, featuring one of the nation’s top air shows and one of the largest annual fireworks shows in the country!

2024 Thunder Over Louisville

SHOW SCHEDULE*

9 AM North Great Lawn Opens (Pegasus Pin Admission) – Featuring the UPS Flight Deck Viewing Area.

9 AM AKIMA Military Zone & South Great Lawn Opens – Featuring interactive displays and activities.

11 AM Thunder Chow Wagon @ Waterfront Park opens (Pegasus Pin Admission), Belvedere Opens (Pegasus Pin Admission), Big Four Bridge Lawn opens (Pegasus Pin Admission), ThunderWear merchandise booths open at 9 locations, Thunder on the Ground opens (ALL interactive experiences)

12 PM – 2:30 PM MIX 106.9 Pre-Thunder Show

12 PM – 3:00 PM WDRB Pre-Thunder Show

12 PM – 8 PM Pegasus Pin Street Teams & Booths open around venue

12 PM – 8 PM Meijer Family Fun Zone at the Big Four Bridge open

12:30 – 2:30 PM BANNER TOWS Begin on both sides of the river

2:30 PM – Miller Lite Music Stage in the Thunder Chow Wagon (2:30–5:30 PM Lampus, 6-9 PM Soul Circus)

2:30 PM – 11 PM OHIO RIVER CLOSED TO COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC FOR AIR SHOW

3:00 PM – Air Show Begins/Official Thunder Broadcast on WDRB and MIX 106.9

3:00 PM – F-16 Viper Four Ship (180th Fighter Wing OH ANG, Toledo, OH)

3:10 PM – UPS Airlines Boeing 747-800 (Louisville IAP, KY)

3:22 PM – Navy EA-18 Growler Demo Team (Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, WA)

3:37 PM – Navy Legacy Flight

3:47 PM – 123rd Special Tactics Squadron Parachute Team, KY ANG (Louisville KY)

3:57 PM – C-130J “Super Hercules” Four Ship (123rd Airlift Wing, KY ANG, Louisville KY)

4:00 PM – Navy MH-53 Helicopter (HM-15 Norfolk NAS, Norfolk VA)

4:10 PM – UH-60 Helocast (Bravo Co. 2-147 Air Assault, Frankfort) and (123rd Special Tactics Squadron, KY ANG, Louisville, KY)

4:18 PM – BREAK

4:24 PM – USAF KC-135 Stratotanker (97th Airlift Wing, Altus AFB, OK)

4:39 PM – USAF C-17 Globemaster III (97th Airlift Wing, Altus AFB, OK)

4:54 PM – Matt Younkin Twin Beech Aerobatics Demo (Day Show)

5:06 PM – USCG MH-65 Dolphin

5:16 PM – USAF “Wings of Blue” Parachute Team

5:36 PM – Clipped-Wing TaylorCraft (Nick Coleman, Bowman Field, Louisville KY)

5:44 PM – Navy E-2C Hawkeye Two Ship (VAW-120, Norfolk NAS, Norfolk VASN)

5:47 PM – Britt Lincoln Extra 300 (MT)
5:55 PM – BREAK

6:01 PM – USAF B-52 (307th Bomb Wing, Barksdale AFB, LA)

6:16 PM – Wild Blue RV-8 Aerobatics (Day Show)

6:24 PM – Yak 52 (Bowman Field, Louisville KY)

6:32 PM – USAF F-16 Viper DEMO (20th Fighter Wing, Shaw AFB, SC)

6:52 PM – USAF Heritage Flight

7:02 PM – BREAK

7:08 PM – USAF A-10 Thunderbolt II “Warthog” (924th Fighter Group, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ)
7:16 PM – USAF C-17 (445th Airlift Wing, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH)

7:22 PM – A-400M Atlas (Lufttransportgeschwader (Air Transport Group) 62, Wunstorf AB, Hannover, Germany)

7:30 PM – USAF T-1A Jayhawk (14th Flying Training Wing, Columbus AFB, MS)

7:33 PM – BREAK

7:39 PM – “Mister Mulligan” Howard DGA-6 (Mason City, IA)

7:47 PM – USMC UH-1Y and AH-1Z Helicopters (Squadron 773, Joint Base Mcguire-Dix-Lakehurst, NJ)

7:59 PM – SMOKE ON! Aviation (Louisville, KY)

8:07 PM – Jeff Gordon Carbon Cub Float Plane (Bowman Field)

8:52 PM – Sunset

8:52 PM – Wild Blue RV-8 Aerobatics (Night Show)

9:00 PM – Magic by Moonlight, Twin Beech Aerobatics Demo (Matt Younkin Airshows)

9:08 PM – Meijer Moment (Thunder Fans Help Light Up the Waterfront)

9:12 PM – Drone Show Powered by LG&E