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Coronation flypast route: Slimmed down display due to bad weather

A six-minute flypast was due to delight viewers after the coronation of the King and Queen - but it will now last less than three minutes.

Saturday 6 May 2023 15:15, UK

The Red Arrows during a flypast after the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, Thursday June 2, 2022, on the first of four days of celebrations to mark the Platinum Jubilee. The events over a long holiday weekend in the U.K. are meant to celebrate the monarch...s 70 years of service. (RAF SAC Sarah Barsby, Ministry of Defence via AP)
Image: The Red Arrows during a flypast to mark the Platinum Jubilee Pic: RAF SAC Sarah Barsby, Ministry of Defence via AP
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More than 60 aircraft were meant to soar over London in a flypast to mark the coronation of the King and Queen - but the weather isn't playing ball.

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The jets will fly over Buckingham Palace at 2.30pm - but it won't be the full fleet.

The Red Arrows and helicopters will take part - but not the historic Spitfires from the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight as originally planned.

The original route was set to be over parts of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex on the way to London.

The planes were due to go over parts of Surrey, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, and Wiltshire.

So what will you actually see and where?

Prince Louis pulls a face on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, to view the Platinum Jubilee flypast, on day one of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations. Picture date: Thursday June 2, 2022.
Image: Prince Louis' reaction to the Jubilee flypast became one of the standout moments of the celebrations

Sadly, the six-minute spectacle will now only last two minutes and thirty seconds, so you have to be quick to catch it.

The flypast route was split into zones, each with a time slot when airspace is restricted - this is the period when the planes were due to be overhead.

But we don't know what the last-minute change means for the route.

This is what the route was meant to be:

The coronation flypast route
Image: The coronation flypast route

Area A: North Sea and Norfolk Coast, 1.15pm-3pm

Area B: Norfolk (Thetford) and Suffolk (Bury St Edmunds), 1.45pm-3pm

Area C: Suffolk (Ipswich), 2pm-3pm

Area D: Essex (Colchester, Chelmsford), 2pm-2.45pm

Area E: London, 2.10pm-2.45pm

Area F: London (Croydon) and Surrey, 2.20pm-3pm

Area G: Berkshire (Reading), Wiltshire (Swindon) and Oxfordshire (Oxford), 2.20pm-3pm

Area H: Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, 2.20pm-3pm

Area I: Wiltshire (Marlborough, Tidworth), 2.20pm-3pm.

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Rehearsing the flypast for the King's coronation

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