All eyes will turn to the sky for Ocean City’s Air Show Weekend on Sept. 19 and 20. All events are free to attend, and the early forecasts call for sunny and clear skies.
The celebration starts with the Ocean City Airport Festival on Saturday (Sept. 19) from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The festival features a ground display of unusual airplanes ranging from World War II planes to warbirds and classics. The event will feature a parachute jump from Team Fastrax, “America’s Skydiving Team.” It also will include food vendors, music, vehicle displays and kids’ activities.
The skydiving team will perform at the Airport Festival at 12 p.m., depending on wind and weather conditions. A half-mile “Runway Run/Walk” will return and is open to all ages. It offers a chance for anybody to cover ground normally traversed only by planes. The run will go off immediately after the skydiving jump.
Children’s activities will include airplane and coloring contests between 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Face-painting, helicopter rides available for purchase, city vehicle displays and special guests Martin and Mollie Mollusk.
The festival takes place at the Municipal Airport at 26th Street and Bay Avenue. Additional parking for the festival will be available at Shelter Road (off Tennessee Avenue) with free shuttle service provided.
The Parachute Pyrotechnic Show will go off over Ocean City at 8 p.m. Saturday (Sept. 19). The show consists of several highly trained and specially licensed Team Fastrax parachuters exiting an aircraft 6,000 feet above Ocean City’s beach and boardwalk. Brilliant white or multi-colored projectile pyrotechnics are then ignited as the parachuters fly in formation, creating a dazzling display for spectators on the ground. The jump will end with a landing on the Seventh Street Beach and will be viewable along the entire Boardwalk.
The Righteous Brothers will perform with the Ocean City Pops on Saturday evening (Sept. 19). The legendary band joins the Pops for the season finale of Ocean City’s beloved local orchestra. The show is at 7:30 p.m. at the Ocean City Music Pier, and the entertainment will pause to allow attendees to see the pyrotechnic parachute jump just outside the Music Pier. Tickets available at the Music Pier Box Office, online at oceancityvacation.com/boxoffice or by calling 609-399-6111.
The Boardwalk Aerobatic Air Show will bring some of the best stunt pilots and aerobatic champions in the nation to put on a show over the beach and boardwalk starting at 1 p.m. Sunday (Sept. 20).
This year’s show will welcome Team Fastrax, Kevin Russo, the Jersey Jerks, Robert “Rooster” Schmidle, and Dougherty Air Shows, among others.
Thousands of spectators typically soak up some of the final days of the calendar summer as they watch the spectacle from the beach and boardwalk. The show is best viewed from the area between Fifth Street and 14th Street. There is no rain date for any of the shows, and air performances may be canceled if weather conditions do not allow for safe flying.
Final Farmers Market of the 2026 season
The final day for the popular weekly Farmers Market on the grounds of the Ocean City Tabernacle will be on Wednesday, Sept. 16. The market will be open 8 a.m. to noon and feature the best of fresh produce from local farms in the region, along with a variety of craft vendors.
Coming up in September
MS City to Shore Ride (Sept. 26-27): About 7,000 cyclists raise millions of dollars through a two-day charity ride from the Philadelphia area to Ocean City and back. For more information, call 1-800-445-BIKE or visit www.mscycling.org.
