FAI World Grand Prix
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FAI World Grand Prix is a Grand Prix aerobatics
Competition aerobatics
Competition aerobatics is an air sport in which judges rate the skill of pilots performing aerobatic flying. It is practiced in both piston-powered single-engine airplanes and gliders....

 series led by Fédération Aéronautique Internationale
Fédération Aéronautique Internationale
The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale is the world governing body for air sports and aeronautics and astronautics world records. Its head office is in Lausanne, Switzerland. This includes man-carrying aerospace vehicles from balloons to spacecraft, and unmanned aerial vehicles...

.

Since 1990th run as Breitling
Breitling
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 Series
up to 1995.
# Event Location Year Note
I Nippon
Nippon
Nippon is a native name for Japan, more formal than Nihon.Nippon can also refer to:-Company names:All of the following companies are based in Japan.*Nikon *Nippon Telegraph and Telephone...

 Japanese Grand Prix
  Tajima
Tajima Province
was an old province of Japan in the area that is today northern Hyōgo Prefecture. It was sometimes called . Tajima bordered on Harima, Inaba, Tamba, and Tango provinces....

 Airport Festival
II Chinese Grand Prix   Zhuhai
Zhuhai
Zhuhai is a prefecture-level city on the southern coast of Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in the Pearl River Delta, Zhuhai borders Jiangmen to the northwest, Zhongshan to the north, and Macau to the south. Zhuhai was one of the original Special Economic Zones...

, Airshow China
1996
III Swiss Grand Prix   Neuchâtel International Air & Space Festival 1996
IV Chinese Grand Prix   Shanghai
Shanghai
Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...

V Chinese Grand Prix   Nanjing
Nanjing
' is the capital of Jiangsu province in China and has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having been the capital of China on several occasions...

, Jiangsu Province
VI Chinese Grand Prix   Jinan
Jinan
Jinan is the capital of Shandong province in Eastern China. The area of present-day Jinan has played an important role in the history of the region from the earliest beginnings of civilisation and has evolved into a major national administrative, economic, and transportation hub...

, Shandong Province
VII Chinese Grand Prix   Tianjin
Tianjin
' is a metropolis in northern China and one of the five national central cities of the People's Republic of China. It is governed as a direct-controlled municipality, one of four such designations, and is, thus, under direct administration of the central government...

VIII Chinese Grand Prix - China Cup   Shijiazhuang
Shijiazhuang
Shijiazhuang is the capital and largest city of North China's Hebei province. Administratively a prefecture-level city, it is about south of Beijing...

, Hebei Province
cancelled/weather
IX Chinese Grand Prix   Zhengzhou
Zhengzhou
Zhengzhou , is the capital and largest city of Henan province in north-central China. A prefecture-level city, it also serves as the political, economic, technological, and educational centre of the province, as well as a major transportation hub for Central China...

, Henan Province
X Nippon Japanese Grand Prix   Twin Ring Motegi
Twin Ring Motegi
is an automobile racing track located at Motegi, Japan. Its name comes from the facility having two race tracks: a oval and a road course. It was built in 1997 by Honda, as part of Honda's effort to bring the IndyCar Series to Japan, helping to increase their knowledge of American open-wheel...

XI Chinese Grand Prix   Changsha, Hunan Province cancelled/safety
XII Honda
Honda
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 Japanese Grand Prix
  Twin Ring Motegi
XIII Chinese Grand Prix   Zhang Jia Jie, Hunan 1999
XIV Wuxian
Suzhou
Suzhou , previously transliterated as Su-chou, Suchow, and Soochow, is a major city located in the southeast of Jiangsu Province in Eastern China, located adjacent to Shanghai Municipality. The city is situated on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and on the shores of Taihu Lake and is a part...

 Chinese Grand Prix
  Lake Taihu, Jiangsu
Jiangsu
' is a province of the People's Republic of China, located along the east coast of the country. The name comes from jiang, short for the city of Jiangning , and su, for the city of Suzhou. The abbreviation for this province is "苏" , the second character of its name...

XV Honda Japanese Grand Prix   Twin Ring Motegi 2000
XVI Nippon Japanese Grand Prix   Twin Ring Motegi 2001
XVII Czech Grand Prix   Brno
Brno
Brno by population and area is the second largest city in the Czech Republic, the largest Moravian city, and the historical capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia. Brno is the administrative centre of the South Moravian Region where it forms a separate district Brno-City District...

XVIII Haute Voltige Aerobatics Japanese Grand Prix   Twin Ring Motegi 2002
XIX Haute Voltige Aerobatics Japanese Grand Prix   Twin Ring Motegi 2003 cancelled
XX Haute Voltige United Arab Emirates Grand Prix   Al Ain
Al Ain
Al Ain |Spring]]), also known as the Garden City due to its greenery, is the second largest city in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the fourth largest city in the United Arab Emirates. With a population of 374,000 , it is located approximately 160 km east of the capital Abu Dhabi and about...

2004
XXI United Arab Emirates Grand Prix   Al Ain Aerobatic Show, United Arab Emirates 2005 Grand Prix of the FAI Centenary
XXII Swiss Grand Prix   Lausanne
Lausanne
Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud. The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva . It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura mountains to its north-west...

2005 FAI Centenary Air Show
XXIII United Arab Emirates Grand Prix   Al Ain Aerobatic Show 2006
XXIV Haute Voltige Aerobatics Japanese Grand Prix   Twin Ring Motegi 2006
XXV Russian Grand Prix   Zhukovsky, Moscow Area 2007
XXVI Haute Voltige Aerobatics Japanese Grand Prix   Twin Ring Motegi


Latest 25th event Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n 2007 FAI World Grand Prix
held on LII
Gromov Flight Research Institute
M. M. Gromov Flight Research Institute or LII for short is an important Russian aircraft test base, scientific research center located in Zhukovsky, 40 km south-east of Moscow.It has one of the longest runways in Europe at 5,403 m...

 airfield, Zhukovskiy http://www.aviagrandprix.ru/ during the 2007 MAKS Airshow
MAKS Airshow
MAKS is an International Air Show held near Moscow, Russia on Zhukovskiy LII air field. The first show, Mosaeroshow-92, was held in 1992. Since 1993, it was renamed to its current name and is held on odd years .MAKS is an important event in Russian business...

. Aircraft used for this event were the Sukhoi Su-26
Sukhoi Su-26
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 with piston engine. Each pilot demonstrated a unique aerobatics programme lasted up to 5 minutes with musical accompaniment and smoke effects. (See results)

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