With the display taking place in the evening for the first time, many islanders took to the seafront for a front-row view of the display.
Diane Kerwood was stationed at the Yacht Club, visiting Guernsey from Buckinghamshire on her annual trip to see friends.
She has been coming to Guernsey for more than 20 years and usually tries to line up her trip to watch the air display.
‘We love this air display, it never disappoints us,’ she said.
‘There’s something about the Red Arrows which is just incredible. Obviously this is the first evening air display and the light over Castle Cornet is just perfect for it. It’s amazing.’
She said she hoped that more children would have been able to come out and see the display since it was out of school hours.
The highly anticipated Red Arrows were unconventionally due to be up first, but a last-minute switch around, for operational reasons, meant Yak3 and Boomerang started off the display.
They served as a warm-up for the Red Arrows, which, as usual, elicited gasps and cheers from those watching.
The Red Arrows flew over directly from Bournemouth and their iconic display met with a round of applause when it came to an end.
While many left after the Red Arrows, some still stuck around to watch the remaining acts. Airborne Pyrotechnics came at the perfect time, lighting up the sky as it became darker into the evening.
One man watching on from the Castle Emplacement said that the switch to an evening show was a great decision.
‘I think it makes the air display a lot more accessible for people,’ he said.
‘Thankfully the rain stopped as it all got started and as long as you’re wrapped up warm for when the sun goes down, it’s perfect.’
His only criticism was that some of the planes later in the schedule without lights were a bit harder to see, but the pyrotechnic performance at the end was the perfect closing aircraft due to the lights onboard the aircraft and the fireworks that they were setting off.
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