The King's coronation will be marked by a huge flypast of aircraft over Buckingham Palace.
A total of 68 aircraft from the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force - including the Red Arrows - will take part in the aerial display that will jet over the palace at around 2.15pm on Saturday.
But it won't just be the Royal Family and those assembled outside Buckingham Palace who will be in with a chance of seeing the planes. Millions of people who live in east and southern England will also see the aircraft as they fly towards, and then back, from their airbases to the capital.
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The exact routes of the aircraft are not being published in advance for security reasons. However air space restrictions have been announced suggesting the aircraft will be flying through those areas.
These have been split into eight zones and have been put in place to stop prevent other pilots from disrupting the aircraft.
These are the areas and times where people may be able to see some of the flypast aircraft:
- Area A between 1.15pm and 3pm: The Lincolnshire coast including Skegness and the Norfolk coast including Cromer and Great Yarmouth.
- Area B between 1.45pm and 3pm: Thetford, Norfolk and Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
- Area C between 2pm and 3pm: Ipswich, Suffolk.
- Area D between 2pm and 2.45pm: Colchester and Chelmsford, Essex.
- Area E between 2.10pm and 2.45pm: London
- Area F between 2.20pm and 3pm: Croydon, south-east London, and Epsom, Surrey.
- Area G between 2.20pm and 3pm: Farnborough, Hampshire; Reading, Berkshire; Swindon, Wiltshire; and Oxford, Oxfordshire.
- Area H between 2.20pm and 3pm: East Gloucestershire and west Oxfordshire.
- Area I between 2.20pm and 3pm: Marlborough and Tidworth, Wiltshire.
Among the aircraft taking part will be 16 helicopters, the historic Spitfires of the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, the RAF’s brand-new P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, Joint RAF and RN crewed state-of-the art F-35B Lightning II jets and transport aircraft from the RAF’s Air Mobility Force.
It will feature the first flypast involvement of the RAF’s new Envoy IV CC1 aircraft.
The flypast is just one of a number of celebrations taking place to mark the Coronation of King Charles III this weekend. The ceremony itself will take place between 11am and 1pm with a procession to and from Westminster Abbey before and after.
On Sunday there will be a Coronation Concert in the evening, with people across the country also encouraged to celebrate with street parties during the day.
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