On Aug. 4, the team is expected to perform a full show along the Dallas Road waterfront, with a flypast over the Inner Harbour on Aug. 8.
Vancouver Island residents will have two last chances to see the Snowbirds in action this summer before they go on hiatus.
Defence Minister David McGuinty announced Tuesday that this season will be the last until the early 2030s for the nine-jet aerobatic team as the team’s signature but aging CT-114 Tutor jets are replaced by the CT-157 Siskin II.
On Aug. 4, the team is expected to perform a full show along the Dallas Road waterfront in Victoria, with a flypast scheduled during the David Foster Foundation gala to be held in the Inner Harbour on Aug. 8.
The Aug. 4 show, which is expected to start at 5 p.m., coincides with a special long weekend celebration at the B.C. Aviation Museum in North Saanich.
The museum is unveiling its restored CT-114 Tutor jet. The No. 175 Tutor is known as Snowbird 1 and dates from when the aerial team first started performing in 1971.
Members of the current Snowbird team will be on hand at the museum on Aug. 3 to sign autographs.
The event will also feature several former Snowbird team members and support personnel — including Sidney resident Maj.-Gen. Glen Younghusband, the first team leader of the Snowbirds in 1971 and 1972, and Abbotsford’s retired Col. George Miller.
The Aug. 8 flypast is expected to be part of the David Foster Foundation’s 40th anniversary Inner Harbour concert. Foster wrote Flight of the Snowbirds as an homage to the aerial aerobatics team, earning him the title of Honorary Snowbird.
The Snowbirds are scheduled to be at the Abbotsford Air Show that weekend.
The team will wrap up their B.C. events on Aug. 12 in White Rock before heading to New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec, finishing the season with two October shows in California.