Nor Cal Classic 2025 Event Program

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Welcome to the 2025 Nor Cal Classic Aerobatic Contest and Tracy Airport Family Day.

This weekend you get to to experience two special events right here in Tracy California.

First is the Airport Family Day sponsored by the City of Tracy and the Tracy Airport. This event is a free publicevent that features entertainment, vendors and food trucks for the benefit of the community. As an added bonus, IAC 38 is hosting their regional aerobatic contest. Unlike an airshow, an aerobatic contests takes pilots and challenges them to compete against others in one of five categories for top honors.

We thank you for coming and we hope you find this information useful and informative.

Hello and thank you for coming! We are so glad you chose to come support us. There is a lot to know and we will use this section to identify a number of safety considerations and rules. As mentioned earlier, this is NOT an airshow.

As neat as these airplanes are and desire to get up and close with them, due to various rules, we cannot allow access to the tarmac or "ramp" area to the general public.

The public is encouraged to observe from the Airport Park, and its parking lot.

Access to the ramp area is restricted for safety. These airplanes have poor visibility on the ground and a spinning propeller is deadly. You can observe aircraft taxiing in to fuel along the fence.

Parking is permitted in designated areas. The parking lot East of the Airport Park is acceptable for parking; however, you cannot sit in the trunk of your car and spectate from there as it is considered too close to the aerobatic area.

Spectators must remain on the west side of the short height fence that runs parallel to the Airport Park. If you are in this area loitering or sitting, you will be asked to move.

The Tracy Airport Association is supporting the music and announcer for the benefit of the spectators.

At the information booth you can purchase this year's T-shirts, stickers and event programs and ask questions and find out information from Contest Volunteers.

We appreciate your assistance in keeping this event clean and safe!

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 The popular characterization for this kind of flying is “stunt flying.”  Pilots who engage in this activity are sometimes thought to be crazy daredevils.  This romantic and somewhat sensational view is common in the media because it is exciting.  It sells advertising and gets attention.  The reality is very different. The people competing at the 2025 Nor Cal Classic to the International Aerobatics Club (www.iac.org), an organization of pilots who work to improve their skills and perfect the accurate performance of aerobatics figures and routines to exacting standards.  The contestants here will be graded by judges, much like the figure-skating contests popular in the Winter Olympic Games.  The pilots flying here are precise, careful individuals who take pride in the attention they give to the safe flying and maintenance of their airplanes. Aerobatics is a physically and mentally challenging sport that takes years to learn and a lifetime to master.  World class pilots start with some natural talent, then dedicate thousands of hours in the air and more on the ground to train to be the very best. As with the best baseball and football players, many desire the goal and few attain it.  Unlike baseball and football players, the financial rewards are few.  The primary reward is more like that of Olympic class athletes.  It is the pleasure of having succeeded in creating a physical performance that is highly demanding, difficult, and sometimes beautiful to watch. 

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Our announcer this year is Juan Browne from the  "Blancolirio" You Tube channel. Check out his stuff here!:https://www.youtube.com/@blancolirio

 He will be walking around the ramp and park offering commentary and educating spectators about all things aviation and aerobatics. 

Various vendors are sponsored by the City of Tracy Airports Dept

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It is important to note that you cannot observe or loiter in the parking area. This area is considered a saftey buffer zone. You are allowed to park in this area but must quickly move to the park and observe from there. Security and police are patrolling the area.

We are not offering merchandise for sale this year.