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Fleet Week 2012

A week filled with Blue Angels, air shows, Navy ships and fireworks | Oct 4-8
By - posted 9/30/2012 No Comment

Look up in the sky when you hear the roaring of jet engines and head down to SF’s northern waterfront for San Francisco’s annual Fleet Week airshow and festival.

Fleet Week 2012
October  4-8, 2012
Northern Waterfront, SF
FREE

Much more than just the Blue Angels, this nearly week-long festival a full airshow with a B-2 Bomber, a 747, Coast Guard rescue demonstrations, plus Navy ship tours, live music, a parade of ships underneath the Golden Gate Bridge, fireworks and tons more.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

  • USS MAKIN ISLAND sails into Bay approx. time under GGB 1:30

Thursday, October 4, 2012

  • 8am Interagency Softball Competition at US Coast Guard Island, Alameda
  • 1-5pm Blue Angels Circle and Arrival Maneuvers practice

Friday, October 5, 2012

  • 8am Interagency Softball at Moscone Field
  • 9-4pm Pier 80 Ships Tours
  • 9-5 Weapons Display at Alameda, near USS Hornet free,open to public
  • 12 -1 US Navy Band concert at Jack London Square, , honoring the veterans of the East Bay. This event is free and open to the public
  • 12:00 USMC 1st Marine Division Band – Tribute Concert to Honor The Fallen, CA Maritime Academy in Vallejo
  • 12:00 Pier 39 Air Force band Concert
  • 12:30 -4 Fleet Week Air Show Practice
  • 1-5 Humanitarian Assistance Village on Marina Green
  • 5pm Pier 39 USMC 1st Marine Band Concert
  • 7:15-7:45 Blue Angels Meet and Greet at PIER 39

Saturday, October 6, 2012

  • 8-5 Weapons Display at Alameda, near USS Hornet free,open to public
  • 9-5 Humanitarian Assistance Village on Marina Green
  • 9-4 Ships tours aboard LHD 8 USS MAKIN ISLAND 
  • 10am Powell St. Cable Car Turn around 1st Marine Division Band Concert
  • 11am Parade of Ships (Ships coming in under GGB to their piers)
  • 12:30-4 Fleet Week Air Show
  • 1pm PIER 39 Band of the Golden West Concert
  • 9:30pm Fireworks sponsored by Hornblowers, Pier 3

Sunday, October 7, 2012

  • 8-5 Weapons Display at Alameda, near USS Hornet, free open to public
  • 9-5 Humanitarian Assistance Village on Marina Green
  • 9-4 Ships Tours
  • 9:30-11:30 K9 Services Pier 80
  • 10-12TRX24-hour Fitness Event on Marina Green
  • 11-4 Oakland Navy League BBQ for visiting Sailors and Marines
  • 12 Italian Heritage Parade North Beach with US Navy Band&USMC Band
  • 12-4 Fleet Week Air Show
  • 1:50-2:30 America’s Cup Race
  • 4:30 PIER 39 Navy Band concert

Monday, October 8, 2012

  • 9-4 Ships Tours
  • 10am High School Band Challenge at Golden Gate Park

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

  • All SFFWA Ships Depart