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In 2026 the Royal Australian Air Force will host the exercise Pitch Black at RAAF Darwin in the Northern Territories. Provisional dates for the exercise are 17 July – 7 August. Besides a large number and variety of RAAF aircraft, you can expect an equally large number of foreign aircraft taking part in this ever increasing exercise.
Mentioned (amongst others) in a long participants list for the 2026 edition; Brunei (C-295), India (Rafale), Indonesia (F-16, C-130), Japan (F-35, E-2), Malaysia (Su-30), Philippines (FA-50), Papua New Guinea (PAC-750), Singapore (F-16, G-550), South Korea (F-16), Thailand (F-16), USA (F-35, MV-22, C-130). We believe this is a very impressive line up.
4Aviation intends to organise a tour to this event again. We will probably offer two options; a short version (focusing solely on the exercise) and a longer version (visiting the exercise and some time in the South of Australia for more military aviation). The reports of two earlier tours can be found below.
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