{"id":233402,"date":"2026-04-03T12:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/233402\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T12:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:24:16","slug":"thunderbirds-take-to-skies-for-great-texas-air-show-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/233402\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbirds take to skies for Great Texas Air Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775219056_856_gettyimages-2210877200.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA &#8211; April 12: United States Air Force Thunderbirds perform at the Southern California Airshow at March Air Reserve Base on April 12, 2025 in RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA. (Photo by Nick Ut\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">SAN ANTONIO &#8211; The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds will take to the San Antonio skies next month as part of the Great Texas Airshow.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The event is scheduled for May 2\u20133 at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The Thunderbirds will be joined by the U.S. Army Parachute Team, the &#8220;Golden Knights&#8221; and demonstration teams for the C-17, KC-46 and the F-22.<\/p>\n<p>  When is the Great Texas Air Show? <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Timeline:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The Great Texas Air Show is May 2\u20133 at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph. This year&#8217;s theme is &#8220;Let Freedom Roar; Honoring 250 Years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The event begins each day at 11 a.m. with gates opening at 9 a.m. According to the base, the Thunderbirds are scheduled to perform around 3 p.m. each day. The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The base will also hold a Military Appreciation Day for all Department of War ID cardholders on May 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article comes from Joint Base San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/bexar-county\/san-antonio\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/military\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Military<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA &#8211; April 12: United States Air Force Thunderbirds perform at the Southern California Airshow at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,698,2672,223,82,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-233402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-bexar-county","12":"tag-military","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-san-antonio","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}