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Wildwoods Airshow
Wildwood, NJ · Sports
- When
- September 11–12, 2027
- Where
- Wildwoods Beach · Wildwood · NJ
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
The Wildwoods Airshow puts military jets and civilian aerobatic performers over the beach each September, free to watch from the sand between Morey's Piers' Mariner's Landing and Adventure Pier. The 2026 lineup includes the US Air Force F-22 Raptor demo team and a flyby from the New Jersey Air National Guard's 177th Fighter Wing, based in Atlantic City. It is one of the largest free air shows on the East Coast.
The history within reach
Chubby Checker first did the Twist in public on a stage here in the summer of 1960 and the dance went round the world.
The largest kite festival in North America, held free to spectators on the beach beside the Wildwoods Convention Center every Memorial Day weekend.
A juried fine arts and crafts festival on Stone Harbor's 2nd Avenue, featuring painting, ceramics, woodworking, jewelry, and glasswork from handpicked makers.
- Cape May County 4-H Fair6.0 mi
Cape May County's 4-H program stages a three-day fair each July at its Court House fairgrounds, with youth livestock and craft exhibits, a midway, and free admission.
One of the oldest seaside resorts in the country, burned nearly flat in 1878 and rebuilt all at once in the gingerbread style of that single decade, so it is now the largest collection of Victorian houses in America, a whole town of them, a National Historic Landmark entire.