The National Aerobatic Team will fly over the starting grid of the Formula 1 Pirelli Italian Grand Prix at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, just as in previous editions. 

Sunday 3 September will once again see the renewal on’Monza National Autodrome the established marriage between the world of Formula 1 and the Italian Air Force. On the occasion of the Italian Grand Prix in fact, at Monza, 9 MB-339PAN aircraft will fly over the starting grid of the motor race, trailing the longest Tricolour in the world across the sky. 

The flypast of the National Aerobatic Team will take place right after the final notes of the Mameli Anthem. Flying over the Autodromo Nazionale Monza has now become a traditional event, which has been repeating every year since 2015, highly appreciated by automotive and aviation enthusiasts. 

This particular flypast has an even more significant meaning because it takes place in the year of the Centenary of the establishment of the Italian Air Force as an independent Armed Force, which took place in 1923. One hundred years of history: the same as the “Temple of Speed” which celebrated them just last year.  

History, speed, innovation, technology, engines and team spirit have always united the Flight Departments of the Italian Air Force, the Autodromo Nazionale Monza and the Formula 1 teams. Indeed, ever since the establishment of the Armed Force in 1923, the men and women in blue have worked daily in the service of the country under the banner of innovation and modernity. 

The 313th Aerobatic Training Group “Frecce Tricolori” 

The 313th Aerobatic Training Group, this being the official designation of the unit, is a flight group of the Italian Air Force which, since 1st March 1961, the date of its establishment at Rivolto Air Base (Udine), has had the task of representing the capabilities of the entire Armed Force. 

Indeed, the mission assigned to the Frecce Tricolori is to represent, in the eyes of Italy and the world, through their spectacular aerobatics, the founding values of the Italian Air Force: professionalism, team spirit, constant commitment and the pursuit of improvement. 

The Frecce Tricolori, heirs to a long and glorious acrobatic tradition of the past, are today a unit consisting of about 100 service personnel, who have the grateful task of representing through their work the over 40,000 men and women of the Italian Air Force. 

During this acrobatic season, the Frecce Tricolori, while travelling for Air Shows across the national territory, will fly over every regional capital with the aim of thanking all Italian citizens who have served and supported the Armed Force in these one hundred years of history. The initiative is called’AM thanks Italy.