{"id":243885,"date":"2026-03-30T20:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T20:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/243885\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T20:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T20:54:08","slug":"oakland-county-international-airport-cancels-2026-air-show-due-to-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/243885\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland County International Airport cancels 2026 air show due to construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/oakland-county-air-show.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article   <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (FOX 2) &#8211; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/us\/mi\/oakland-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oakland County<\/a> International Airport has canceled this year&#8217;s Festival of Flight.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The event, which includes an air show and open house, is typically scheduled for the second weekend of August. The Waterford Township airport cited &#8220;a high volume of construction activity&#8221; as the reason for the cancellation.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Taxiways at the airport are scheduled to be reconstructed this year, with the work beginning in May. The multi-phase project is expected to take more than three months to complete.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/news\/selfridge-air-show-canceled-due-operational-readiness-requirements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Selfridge Air Show canceled<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/lifestyle\/things-to-do-detroit\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Things To Do<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/us\/mi\/oakland-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (FOX 2) &#8211; The Oakland County International Airport has canceled this year&#8217;s Festival of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[971,249,100,143,904,145,144,109321,1181],"class_list":["post-243885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-lifestyle","tag-mi","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-things-to-do-detroit","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}