{"id":5460064,"date":"2026-07-14T11:11:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=5460064"},"modified":"2026-07-14T11:11:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:11:59","slug":"bastille-day-2026-flypast-ukrainian-mirage-paris-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/bastille-day-2026-flypast-ukrainian-mirage-paris-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"A European Bastille Day Over Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<p>At 10:25 on the morning of 14 July, the Patrouille de France swept over the Arc de Triomphe and unrolled three ribbons of blue, white and red down the length of the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es. Behind them came a river of jets. And for the first time in the long history of France\u2019s national day, two of those aircraft carried Ukrainian pilots.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s flypast was built around a single idea, printed at the top of the official programme: <em>l\u2019\u00e9veil strat\u00e9gique de l\u2019Europe<\/em> \u2014 the strategic awakening of Europe. President Emmanuel Macron hosted around thirty leaders on the reviewing stand, and put allied troops and aircraft front and centre in a deliberate message to both Moscow and Washington: Europe intends to defend itself.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px;border-radius:8px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px\"><strong>Quick Facts<\/strong><\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px;line-height:1.8\"><li><strong>Event:<\/strong> Bastille Day (14 July) military flypast, Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es, Paris<\/li><li><strong>2026 theme:<\/strong> &ldquo;The strategic awakening of Europe&rdquo;<\/li><li><strong>Aircraft:<\/strong> 98 fixed-wing (incl. 8 foreign) + 32 helicopters, per the official programme<\/li><li><strong>Opened by:<\/strong> the Patrouille de France in its &ldquo;Big Nine&rdquo; Alphajet formation<\/li><li><strong>Rafales:<\/strong> 40+ over Paris, incl. 13 Rafale M and an E-2C Hawkeye for the Marine Nationale&rsquo;s 400th anniversary<\/li><li><strong>First:<\/strong> Ukrainian pilots flew over the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es, in French Mirage 2000B trainers<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Nearly 130 machines over Paris<\/h2>\n<p>The official 2026 programme listed 98 fixed-wing aircraft \u2014 eight of them from foreign air forces \u2014 followed by 32 helicopters, for a total approaching 130 machines. It is one of the largest regular displays of air power anywhere in the world, packed into a few minutes over one avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The French Navy took a starring role. To mark the 400th anniversary of the Marine Nationale, a naval-aviation tableau of 13 Rafale M fighters and an E-2C Hawkeye early-warning aircraft thundered past, part of a wider showing of more than forty Rafales in total. The Patrouille de France, the Arm\u00e9e de l\u2019air et de l\u2019espace\u2019s aerobatic team since 1953, led the whole procession with its trademark tricolore smoke.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Ukrainian pilots, French jets<\/h2>\n<p>The most talked-about aircraft were two Mirage 2000B \u2014 the two-seat training version of Dassault\u2019s delta-winged fighter. These are French jets, flown from the front seat by French Air and Space Force instructors, with Ukrainian student pilots in the rear cockpit. One of the pair wore a special livery in Ukrainian colours.<\/p>\n<p>The symbolism was carefully chosen. France has been training Ukrainian pilots and has supplied Ukraine with Mirage 2000-5F fighters during the war; putting Ukrainian aviators over the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es on the national day turned that support into a picture the whole world could see. It is the first time Ukrainian pilots have taken part in the flypast.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img data-opt-id=646136560  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:PLgJ.c5fe\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/french-air-force-mirage-2000.jpg\" alt=\"French Air Force Mirage 2000 in flight\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A French Air and Space Force Mirage 2000. Two two-seat Mirage 2000B trainers, flown by French instructors with Ukrainian student pilots aboard, joined the 2026 flypast. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;It is a great honour to welcome all the partners in the coalition of the willing and our Ukrainian friends who will march with us and illustrate its strategic reawakening and our unity.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Emmanuel Macron<\/strong> &mdash; President of France, remarks on the eve of Bastille Day<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What the 14th of July actually celebrates<\/h2>\n<p>For all the fighter jets, Bastille Day is not really a military holiday. The 14th of July marks the storming of the Bastille fortress in 1789 \u2014 the spark of the French Revolution \u2014 and the F\u00eate de la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration that followed a year later. France has observed it as its national day, the F\u00eate nationale, since 1880.<\/p>\n<p>The parade down the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es grew into the centrepiece of the day: one of the oldest and largest regular military parades in Europe, watched by the president, foreign guests and a vast crowd along the avenue. The opening flypast, with the Patrouille de France painting the sky in the colours of the flag, has become its most photographed moment. This year the rehearsals alone drew crowds; the video below captures the French forces practising the display in the days beforehand.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X8lIyRHFEAc\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p>Whatever one makes of the geopolitics stitched into this year\u2019s theme, the spectacle over Paris was as stirring as ever \u2014 and a reminder of why the French do the 14th of July like no one else. From all of us at Afterburner, <em>joyeux 14 Juillet<\/em> to our French readers. Happy F\u00eate nationale.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources: Associated Press; France 24; Euronews; Defense News; AeroTime; official Bastille Day programme.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Related Posts<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/ukrainian-mirages-bastille-day-paris-2026\/\">Ukrainian Mirages Will Lead Bastille Day Over Paris<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/the-pilots-who-flew-under-the-eiffel-tower\/\">The Pilots Who Flew Under the Eiffel Tower<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 10:25 on the morning of 14 July, the Patrouille de France swept over the Arc de Triomphe and unrolled three ribbons of blue, white and red down the length of the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es. Behind them came a river of jets. 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