{"id":266871,"date":"2026-05-11T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266871\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:36:08","slug":"the-2026-fort-lauderdale-air-show-is-underway-on-saturday-with-the-u-s-air-force-thunderbirds-headlining-as-fans-flocked-to-the-beach-to-look-up-at-the-sky-for-a-breathtaking-performance-%e2%81%a0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266871\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2026 Fort Lauderdale Air Show is underway on Saturday, with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds headlining as fans flocked to the beach to look up at the sky for a breathtaking performance.\u2060\n\u2060\nAt the event was Florida Panther Matthew Tkachuk, who had a front-row seat inside a Thunderbird F-16 Falcon, as part of the Air Force&#8217;s Heroes Program ahead of the show.\u2060\n\u2060\nSponsored by Florida Power &#038; Light. #airforce #sponsored #thunderbirds #MatthewTkachuk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 Fort Lauderdale Air Show is underway on Saturday, with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds headlining as fans flocked to the beach to look up at the sky for a breathtaking performance.\u2060<br \/>\n\u2060<br \/>\nAt the event was Florida Panther Matthew Tkachuk, who had a front-row seat inside a Thunderbird F-16 Falcon, as part of the Air Force&#8217;s Heroes Program ahead of the show.\u2060<br \/>\n\u2060<br \/>\nSponsored by Florida Power &amp; Light.<\/p>\n<p>#airforce #sponsored #thunderbirds #MatthewTkachuk | NBC 6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 Fort Lauderdale Air Show is underway on Saturday, with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds headlining as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-266871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}